PinnedThe search for ultimate truth is called science, the gathering of objective evidence about the…No less an authority than Paul of Tarsus defines faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen” [Hebrews…Apr 18, 20219Apr 18, 20219
PinnedGod, THAT, the Tao, the Fount of Being, call it what you will, has engendered a universe in which…This is the ineluctable truth with which God rebukes Job from the whirlwind: “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth…Nov 10, 20221Nov 10, 20221
Tony, I speak from your side of the argument.Science rests on the notion of causality. What caused the universe? The Big Bang. What caused the Big Bang? Quantum fluctuations, you say…Nov 121Nov 121
If he’d never entered politics, Trump would have lived out his wretched life as a low-level public…The worst—the very worst—thing that could have happened to such a malignant personality was the 2016 election, feeding his sense of…Sep 13Sep 13
Brian, I think this is the best column of yours that I’ve ever read.Look at the way other countries do it: they call an election, spend a few weeks debating the issues, hold the vote, and bang, that’s it…Sep 121Sep 121
I would take the opposite view.My problem with religion is precisely with its purporting to be a moral philosophy. What have ethics and morality—how we behave toward one…Aug 211Aug 211
In the town where I used to live, I had a favorite Chinese restaurant where I would go for lunch a…The TV behind the counter was usually playing some Chinese-language program or other, but one day I went in and found her listening to a…Aug 131Aug 131