Before I had children, I worked as a systems engineer at NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. Through my career, I met a lot of brilliant scientists and engineers who were committed Christians. But I also encountered a lot of intellectual skepticism to Christianity, especially on the question of God’s existence.Continue reading “God’s Systems Engineer”
Category Archives: Creation
Oh My Failing Flesh
It was a rough July. Twice I was unexpectedly hospitalized and needed the whole nine yards of medical intervention: ER, ICU, and regular hospitalization. No, not for the reason you might expect. In fact, I’ve tested negative for COVID-19 twice. I’ve never tried to hide my age, but I have recently bragged in print thatContinue reading “Oh My Failing Flesh”
One Impact of Artificial Intelligence No One Accounted For
One of Yuval Harari’s contentions is that many people researching into AI do not concern themselves with consciousness for the simple reason that their AI systems are allowing them to create intelligence (simulated) that is not conscious – and that is sufficient for their purposes. It is easy to get some idea of what thisContinue reading “One Impact of Artificial Intelligence No One Accounted For”
The Myth of Race
For nearly five years, I led a large inner-city ministry working in a predominantly black community with and for people that I loved deeply and for whom the issues of race and racism loomed large. As real as it is, racism has become for many the sole explanation for the social decay and economic deprivationContinue reading “The Myth of Race”
Paradise Lost
Sadly, the way things were meant to be is not the way things are. Something has gone badly wrong, and it went wrong almost from the beginning. As fundamental as creation is to the Christian worldview, the Bible spends surprisingly little time reporting how it happened—mainly a couple of pages in Genesis. Presumably, this isContinue reading “Paradise Lost”
The Creation Mandate
How else can we glorify God? The doctrine of creation affirms the environment, where we have a responsibility of benevolent stewardship. God said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thingContinue reading “The Creation Mandate”
God Shows Himself
If the God is the creator, then creation shows us who God is. As we saw in the previous chapter, nature is one of the books that God has written to reveal his character. “What can be known about God is plain,” wrote the apostle Paul, “because God has shown it. . . . HisContinue reading “God Shows Himself”
More Than Blind, Pitiless Indifference
It all begins with creation. Once again, we are simply following the logic of Scripture as it tells God’s story: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). This is how the cosmos came into being. By his powerful word, God created the entire universe out of nothing (ex nihilo), “soContinue reading “More Than Blind, Pitiless Indifference”
Is AI Today’s Tower of Babel
In May, Microsoft unveiled a new supercomputer at a developer conference, claiming it’s the fifth most powerful machine in the world. Built in collaboration with OpenAI, the computer is designed to train single massive AI models in self-supervised learning, forgoing the need for human-labeled data sets. These AI models operate in distributed optimization, resulting inContinue reading “Is AI Today’s Tower of Babel”
What Billions Say in Silence
“When I look at the stars, I see someone else.” (Switchfoot) When David looked up in the Near Eastern night sky 3,000 years ago, what he saw almost took his breath away. And in an attempt to express the wonder that flooded him as he contemplated his minuteness in view of such vastness, and God’sContinue reading “What Billions Say in Silence”
