Science & Faith

John Polanyi’s life was saved by penicillin. He recounts this story of discovery and final medical use in an address in April, 2007, and most of his speech appeared in a recent issue of the Toronto Star. It is a remarkable story. It begins...

More about Up and Down. In the heyday of Tupperware, we had on our shelf two big boxes: “Bottomless Tops” and “Topless Bottoms”. Thus economy was served and humour retained. But Up and Down and their inter-connections remain mysteries in...

In 1964 my wife and I and four children had a working holiday for three months in Britain and Ireland. We had almost no Canadian news in the British newspapers. Except for Honest Ed’s. The news was that Ed had offered free boxes of bathing...

Having been brought up to believe in both evolution and in God as Creator, I have been inclined to think of the quarrels here and in the United States between the “creationists” and the “evolutionists” as on a par with the great Battle of...

The poet Keats began his poem “Endymion” this way: A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness... You can imagine that this might well be the way to address the beloved; perhaps changing...

Religious faith has to encounter not only the physical sciences -physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc. - but also the “human’ sciences. One of these is anthropology. Its studies range from the size and shape of the human skull, through much...

Albert Einstein rejected all association with organized religion in his personal life. Nevertheless, he believed in a God very similar to what many modern readers believe in. He believed that the universe was built as an intelligible whole....

He was tall and thin, with large glasses, and might look like a raccoon. If they had raccoons in Vienna, where his career began. By the time we notice him in North America, he is lecturing at Princeton, New Jersey. Every afternoon, Einstein...

There is a distinct prejudice in our social customs against left-handedness. So when Christian writing says that Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father, some young minds will ask “who sits at the left?” Young minds are specially crafted...

One of our readers was surprised when I responded in a personal letter that I found his letter a challenge: he apologized! But I want to be challenged! And some challenges have come. The first was the nobody knows the reason for the existence...

A Challenge from Bob Reid, received Jan 12, 2007 Graham, I read this article with some interest. You quote Einstein as having said that all of creation is "inexplicable". That being the case, should you not have left it at that - full stop?...