New Theory of Everything

If you have ever sat up reading books like God and the New Cosmology, The Tao of Physics or The Dancing Wu Li Masters, listen up. If you follow the attempts of certain physicists, in the off duty hours, to discover a theory beyond quantum physics, this might just be for you. It does bend my brain pretty far, but, hey, that's good for you!

The Theory - A soliloquy on the ultimate theory

The author, who writes the above blog anonymously, is presently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in a basic science department at a major medical school in the United States of America. He performed predoctoral studies in human molecular virology and cancer etiology, received his doctorate in yeast genetics, biochemistry and cell biology, and completed postdoctoral studies in fly biochemistry, molecular, cellular, and developmental biology in the late 20th century.
He has extensive experience in journal publishing, having authored or co-authored 16 peer-reviewed articles over the course of 15 years. He has also authored ~15 research grants over 12 years, 3 of which were awarded by the National Institutes of Health.

Two Men I Admire

The Pope and Stephen Hawking.

photo by Reuters

QUOTE There is no contradiction between believing in God and empirical science, Pope Benedict told a Rome gathering of eminent scientists including cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
Pope Benedict, who briefly met the wheelchair bound physicist at an event hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, described science as the pursuit of knowledge about God's creation, MSNBC reports.

"There is no opposition between faith's understanding of creation and the evidence of the empirical sciences," the pope said.
"Galileo saw nature as a book whose author is God."
Hawking is a guest at the week long event, which will explore the theme: "Scientific Insights into the Evolution of the Universe and of Life." UNQUOTE

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First Friday in October

The emphasis has been so heavy on the negative, the economic mes, the political election cycle, the war in Iraq and countless worldly woes ~ let's take a moment on this first Friday, before many of us - the Catholics amongst us, anyhow - head to church before our dinner ~ let's take a moment to consider the spiritual side. That's the side that matters most!

From Spirit Daily
QUOTE Often God deals with our swollen selves by pricking the balloon we too often become.
When we boast or gossip, when we have pride, we fill like a blimp with hot air.
The Lord, in His Mercy, will eventually cause that to burst. He will let fresh air in. Pride goes before the fall.
"Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins," says Matthew 9:17, "otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
How are you swollen? Is there negativity welling inside of you? What has become too big for your "skin" to contain? UNQUOTE

Good Morning, Rise and Shine

I'm headed for church to pray for the whole kit and kaboodle, the good, the bad & the ugly...as the prayer goes ..."for those who hate us and those who love us..."

Have a good day.

DJY

Oil and God's Creation

From Spirit Daily comes a confluence of Christian concern and the current fuel situation.
Be sure and click on over and read it all.

QUOTE Right now, peer around you. What do you see?
Do you see the nature that God created, for the main part -- the world He formed -- or the creations of men? Do we believe it was in His design to have toxic outfalls into pristine rivers or belching smokestacks against an azure sky?
What are the fruits of oil? Tensions in the Middle East. Synthetic food additives. Pesticides that do not degrade. Rampant car-driven consumerism. There are the chemicals, and now genetically-modified foods that have replaced or seek to replace what God made to nourish us.
Pharmaceuticals? Yes. We need those.
But can we not derive them also more naturally? UNQUOTE