Chapter 22Andy Duffner, Physicist-Theologian

The scientific and technical view of the world concerns itself with the physics and engineering that drive and sustain existence. The religious believer, on the other hand, often bypasses quantifiable matters to ponder questions of purposeful design, and is less concerned with measurement than with meaning.

Yet while the scientist and the believer each have their own focus, they really are considering the same question: What’s it all about?

It’s pretty heady stuff to think that the forces which the scientific community identifies as gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak interactions of atomic particles are of the same force that appeared in historic time in the form of a burning bush ...

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