Stop me if you've heard this one: a biophysicist, a writer, a theologian walk into a bar. OK, so that's not actually how Dawn was written, but the diverse backgrounds of the three co-writers--Cees Dekker, Corien Oranje, and Gijsbert van den Brink respectively--do sound more like résumés for the cast of a niche joke than for collaborators on a novel. And not just any novel, but one that spans 14 billion years--from the instants after the Big Bang until the moment the manuscript was sent to the printers (or so it seems, … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Dawn – A Proton’s Tale of All that Came to Be
Big Bang Theory
New Planetarium Show Highlights Catholic Priest Who Helped Establish Big Bang Theory
If you grew up in the US, odds are that the story that you were told of how Big Bang theory was developed is missing a key figure – Catholic priest and astrophysicist Georges Lemaître. After Einstein published his theory of General Relativity in 1915 and wrote his cosmological constant paper in 1917, a graduate student named Georges Lemaître became fascinated with how the new theory might have tangible insights into the cosmos and the observations that were then being made. Famously, in 1927 Lemaître presented to … [Read more...] about New Planetarium Show Highlights Catholic Priest Who Helped Establish Big Bang Theory
Timing of Creation Events & The View from Science
So far in this series we've seen that: there can be no real conflict between science and the Bible because Scripture and nature are both revelations from God (click here) the main message of Genesis 1 is that God is the creator and that man is the pinnacle of his creation (click here); Genesis 1 does not intend to teach modern science (click here). In this and the next post we're examining more carefully one source of apparent tension between science and the Bible, namely the timing of the events of … [Read more...] about Timing of Creation Events & The View from Science