There are many things I find amazing about science, leading to
me to awe, wonder, and questions.
The immense size of the universe, the complexity of life,
successful scientific predictions, and the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.
Why is the universe like this? Why can humans understand it so well?
What does theology say about all this?
The talk is intended for a general non-expert audience.
An earlier version of the slides for the talk is here.
This image of a pinwheel galaxy was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and is from here.
My area of study is in ecology and applied work in landscape planning. We use the concept of catena to describe a series of related soils in a landscape. One of my favorite concepts has always been cocatenation which captures the idea that we know something , but not everything about connected things .Today I discovered this quote from Einstein
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