I ran across this image in my library, and I cannot find a context for it. It makes me think of the Big Bang, or one of the many little bangs since. As I continue to watch and listen to my DVD “Understanding the Universe” course, I may learn what it is. Or I may [...]

In this article I will head straight for the tough stuff and tackle Chapter 3, The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years. This is mostly a summary of today’s scientific conclusions, and after we get a good layman’s grasp of this, we may be able better to judge whether it can [...]

In Bang! (I), I suggested that it might be intellectually and spiritually very satisfying to be able to show that the scientific and biblical views of our time about creation are converging. This is what author Gerald Schroeder set out to show in The Science of God, the convergence of scientific and biblical wisdom [...]

Big, that is. My logical mind is convinced that there was a Big Bang that marked the origin of life and the origin of man. My logical mind is also convinced of an eternal realm beyond time and space and matter. God exists. I read how some religious writers interpret the first chapter of Genesis, [...]

Thanks to whoever gave me a little desk plaque that says:

God grant that I may live
to fish until my dying day.
When it comes to my last cast
I then most humbly pray.
When in the Lord’s safe landing net
I’m peacefully asleep, that in
His mercy I be judged
as big enough to keep.
Those simple words are either wise or [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope has been upgraded, and some stunning images from it are starting to show up around the web. Not only are they visually appealing, but I, at least, find images like this one … what’s the right word? … humbling, perhaps. I challenge you wordsmiths out there to meditate on the image [...]

Forgive the irreverent title (if it is in fact irreverent) and bear with me for a moment. It’s just another book that has got me under its spell. It will pass.
Talk about an off-beat book! It was recommended to me almost a year ago, and it sounded perfectly horrible. It still may be a horrible [...]

Images like this one make me wonder how long I can stare at such views without losing what passes for my mind. (You can click on the image to expand it.) Why is it that such views of the cosmos have such a fascination? Let me count the ways.
As a town boy, I know [...]

Or, if you are an Osage Indian, hahatonka or, if you are at the Lake of the Ozarks, Ha Ha Tonka State Park. Here is an excellent site that tells all about this unique State Park. It is the location of Missouri’s eleventh largest spring, one that pumps out an average of 48 million gallons [...]

When we think much about creation we are treading dangerous ground. We live within a tiny slice of space and time, and mankind’s expanding ability to probe the far reaches of the cosmos is where the danger lies. Are there any human minds at all that can draw valid conclusions from such images probing space [...]