Chaos Theology

We made it to last night’s lecture on science and faith, offered by Dr. Sjoerd Bonting, an Episcopal priest and NASA consulting scientist, who offered (what else) a PowerPoint preso (pretty good one). Dr. Bonting is very interesred in chaos theory, and extends his interest philosophically and theologically, to include the fact that nearly every […]

That’s me on the left

At lunch with colleague Dave Stromfeld in Chicago, 6 days before the seizure that landed me in O’Connor ER and my new life. I tripped over this photo after I inadvertently launched iPhoto on my MacBook Pro. Compare the pic with the mug below: I weigh the same, but months of steroids have bloated me […]

Is there a pattern here?

I snapped this photo while waiting to shoot an assignment at Dodger Stadium in the 1970s. One reason for posting is that I was having a heck of a time making the ‘Faith’ post, below, with a photo included.
In fact, as you can see, I never succeeded. I kept getting a permissions error from Apache […]

Faith at 5 PM

I am dualistic (kind of ‘quantum’) on the topics of science and faith. I have often responded to secular and atheist opinions on faith by asking the question about faith communities - where else would they come from? They’re not ’support groups’ per se: there’s a depth and commitment I’ve seen nowhere else. Neil Stephenson […]

‘My life with cancer’

Newsweek reporter Jonathan Alter has documented his struggle with cancer: Linda snaggged the magazine from one of our practitioner’s offices (with permission). Alter writes about the emotional ups and downs, the uncertainty, the private despair, the physical fallout like fatigue and the public need to appear chipper and upbeat - all things that Linda […]

Tough week…

I’m not sure why I haven’t documented my tribulations this week: this has probably been the toughest week for mobility issues since I became aware of my brain tumor. My left side is particularly shut down, and the right is weak. Balance, never a strong point with me, is particularly bad.
Monday, I made it into […]

A little male bonding

Family friend, winemaker Anthony Riboli is in town, so John and he and I went out to lunch (Mike’s Cafe), followed by (what else would manly men do?) a visit to Bianchini’s upscale market, where I asked Anthony to pick some wines.
His top recommendation: Termes Tinto d’Oro 2004 from Spain, which he has in his […]

Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’ slips, but do we care?

With 8-core Intel Macs, and the Universal Binary version of Adobe’s Creative Suite hitting the market, my guess is the impact on Apple of the Leopard slip won’t be big. The real pent-up demand is for Adobe’s heavy-lifting graphics apps on Intel’s multi-core technology, shipping in the latest Mac towers. Mac OS X 10.4.9 is […]

Creation and Evolution

A book called ‘Creation and Evolution’ is cited by Reuters as quoting Pope Benedict saying ‘I would not depend on faith alone to explain the whole picture’ and calling evolution ‘the great fundamental questions of philosophy: where man and the world came from and where they are going.’
N.Y. Times writer Ian Fisher notes in his […]

And why have reason and religion drifted apart?

I think the Church, the institution, has a lot to do with that. Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a scientist and Christian mystic who was forbidden to publish by the Church for his entire career. A discoverer of Peking Man, the Omega Point and Noosphere, his posthumously-published works did much to relate reason and […]

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