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Professor Bejan’s Constructal Law
Quotations from Dr. Adrian Bejan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke, in his 2012 book…, … Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technol...
From “Lives of a Cell”
“The oldest, easiest-to-swallow idea [about our planet] was that the Earth was man’s personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to b...
Genesis – Two Different Stories

Genesis – Two Different Stories What are the differences between the two creation stories in the Book of Genesis, and why are they written this way instead of just one account that’s clearer t...
God or Natural Continuing Creation?

When an artist paints a picture, or a mason builds a wall, those things are their creations. Thomas Edison (with contributions from other inventors) created the electric light bulb. Most human creat...
The Processes of Continuing Creation

It’s unfortunate that Christians have laid claim to the phrases, “Creationism” and “Continuous Creation.” To them, the labels mean that God is actively causing and sustaining all the Creatio...
Peak Experiences
Here are some of my “Peak Experiences” in life: Watching my one-year-old daughter giggle when I wiggled my fingers at her. Holding my wife’s hand while she reads her Kindle before ...
When Wholes Are Greater than the Sum of their Parts

Continuing Creation happens when parts combine to make wholes, and then the wholes combine to make even “greater” Wholes. Thus, over time, single-celled creatures combined to make multi-celled cre...
Constructive Living Is My Spiritual Path

I have a loving family and close friends. I don’t need a supernatural savior. I can see tree leaves glowing gold when they are backlit by the sun. I can hear happy babies laugh. I don̵...
A Riff on Walt Whitman

“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” — Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, #48 “We hear and behold the Processes of Physics, Chemis...