by George L. Murphy | Dec 6, 2018 | Features
By Aaron Burden/Public domain via Unsplash “Teaching Faith and Science” was one of the areas for which papers were invited for the annual meeting of American Scientific Affiliation this past summer. I gave one of the papers, as well as being a reviewer of others that...
by George L. Murphy | Sep 5, 2018 | Commentary
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has a monthly ad in Scientific American, and the one for March 2017 featured a statement by physicist Lawrence Krauss. “Lack of understanding is not evidence for God. It is an evidence of lack of understanding, and a call to use...
by George L. Murphy | Nov 8, 2017 | Features
In the July-August issue I talked about the mathematical form of basic laws of physics, inspired by Dirac’s suggestion that “God is a mathematician.” But I also said that we needn’t think God’s creative work to be based entirely on mathematics. “God is not a pinhead,”...
by George L. Murphy | Jul 13, 2017 | Features
Scientific American in May 1963 published theoretical physicist Paul Dirac’s article “The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature.” It was my last year as a physics undergraduate and the article described important steps in development of relativity and quantum...
by George L. Murphy | Sep 15, 2016 | Features
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published in “Lutheran Partners” as a Handiwork column in 2006. The article is still timely though as many seek to downplay the attempts to publicly reaffirm the tenets of young earth creationism. Before the rise of modern...
