Every religion thunders its day of reckoning, and to examine God’s judgment is to probe God’s character and perhaps assess God’s existence. If God does not exist, God’s judgment may expose it. If God does exist, and assuming God is merciful as well as just, maybe we’ve missed the meaning of God’s Judgment.
If ESP is real–that’s a big “If”–then our entire worldview would change. Existence would be somehow enlarged. But extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
Einstein showed that space and time are essentially the same thing—a single entity, space-time. But space and time seem so radically different. How could space and time be literally the same thing?
Everyone knows that the universe is huge, but no one could have imagined how staggeringly immense the universe, or multiple universes, may actually be. It stops your breath.
All who affirm that God does exist should examine the strong attacks of those who conclude that God does not exist, and then assess the sharp counterattacks of scholarly believers. Belief in God is too important to be determined by cultural circumstances.
Is our mental life a random accident, solely the product or byproduct of physical brain? Or is there something deeply special about conscious awareness that may reveal a hidden reality?
How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains “experience” the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love?
Extra dimensions-beyond length, width, height-seem the stuff of science fiction. What would extra dimensions be like? Is time the fourth dimension? Could deep reality be so strange? And, anyway, why would we care?
It is the Holy Grail of physics: All the particles and forces of nature unified and explained by equations so simple that you can print them on your tee shirt. Are we getting there?
Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean?
Whether extra-terrestrial intelligences exist has profound implications for human religion. We are either alone or not alone in the universe, but no matter the ultimate answer, theists and atheists will each mold that answer, alone or not alone, to fit their opposing worldviews.
Does ordinary stuff have mysterious properties? Take anything; find all its parts; combine those parts any way you like. What do you expect? Nothing at all like what you have. It’s called “emergence” and it describes how wondrously our world works. But is it a real mystery?