Friday, March 10, 2006

God by the numbers - Christianity Today Magazine

Here is an excellent article that discusses the delicate balance of the four elementary forces (gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear forces), the actual time required for evolution to have a chance of success (hint: far older even than the 20 billion years that conventional astronomers allow), and the positive elegance of a relation among five incredibly disparate mathematical constants. If you're conversant with higher mathematics, and think that God and math don't mix, you must check this out.