by George L. Murphy | May 9, 2020 | Commentary
Photo by Jason Coleman via Unsplash Telegraph means writing at a distance, television means seeing at a distance, and there are other words with the tele- prefix for new technologies. Telecommunion is one I just coined (I think) to mean communion, the Lord’s Supper,...
by George L. Murphy | Mar 15, 2020 | Commentary
In his “Evolution and Mystery: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic,” Shedinger doesn’t define the “growing and respected intellectual movement” to which he refers in his first paragraph. On further reading, however, it seems likely that it’s the intelligent design...
by George L. Murphy | Feb 10, 2020 | Commentary
The extent to which religious beliefs of public school students should be respected in science classes has long been debated. Attempts to prohibit teaching of evolution or other controversial topics have been rejected by the courts. But of course that doesn’t mean...
by George L. Murphy | Nov 7, 2019 | Features
Photo by Bobby Johnson via Unsplash Stephen Hawking wrote that if we can answer the question of why we and the universe exist, “it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God.”1 Others at the frontiers of physics have used...
by George L. Murphy | Oct 17, 2019 | Features
Photo by Aaron Burden via Unsplash (Editor’s note: A version of this article, “Bearing Witness with the Lutheran Alliance on Faith, Science and Technology,” originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of Lutheran Forum) Beginning to address the challenge In 1987, the...
