Where the Rubber Hits the Road

James Cameron heads to the Mariana Trench Many thanks to Deep Diver, a friend of this blog for recommending this article.  I've posted a couple of these 'size perspective' articles recently. The first expressed the cosmic scale of the universe from a 'Plank Unit' to the calculated totality of the Universe, mining deeply into the mystery and beauty of God as creator of the big and the small. This one demonstrates the mystery and beauty of plate tectonics that inspires a similar sense of awe. If science and God both fire the same experience of awe within those of us who believe in both, does this not point to an essential union in some fashion between the two? It sure does for me! How about you? Film director James Cameron leads submarine race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench - Telegraph

Really? Then who was responsible for these disasters when the Republicans are in power? Michele Bachmann: Natural disasters a warning to D.C. - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com

Socon or Bust » Blog Archive » Why does God allow suffering?

      The goosebumps have hardly left my arms as I write this post in the wake of the triumph of our hockey team over Team USA; the athletic finale to the Vancouver Olympics, which have been the single greatest standard of excellence in setting an all time Winter Olympic high for gold medals won by a single country! My sense of patriotism and pride in the Canadian accomplishments these past 17 days, has brought me to my feet several times in singing our national anthem. For the "first time ever won on our home soil" gold of Alexandre Biladeau, to the final gold of the hockey victory I suspect that there have been few equals in the outpouring of national pride  now being demonstrated up in these hours! Believe me, I give thanks and praise to God for these victories!! Yet, I can predict there are in both the theist and atheist camps, those who would object to my confidence in saying that God is responsible for this explosion of patriotic fever, which grips al...

The relationship of the disaster in Haiti has occupied quite a bit of recent space on this blog. In that same spirit I offer this Op Ed piece from the NYT in which James Wood delves into the subject.

"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, then how come evil is in the world?"  Epicurus (341-270 bce) This quote was offered today in the comment threads of one of my earlier posts. 'Martin' suggested that this mystery cannot be solved without  one "miring themselves in confused, byzantine, and self-contradictory poraxisms of illogic." I would appreciate some input from others in the blogosphere in formulating an answer to this question, either in the form of suggested reading or perhaps a proposed answer that you might wish to propose. I responded by suggesting that the problem inherent in this conundrum is that it imposes on God the limitation of existing in time - a conclusion I tried to back up using Einstein's formula of relativity (...