Let my soul praise You, in all these things, God, Creator of all; but let not my soul be stuck to these things by the glue of love, through the senses of the body. For they go where they were meant to go, that they may exist no longer. And they rend the soul with pestilent desires because she longs to be and yet loves to rest secure in the created things she loves. But in these things there is no resting place to be found. They do not abide. They flee away; and who is he who can follow them with his physical senses? Or who can grasp them, even when they are present? For our physical sense is slow because it is a physical sense and bears its own limitations in itself. The physical sense is quite sufficient for what it was made to do; but it is not sufficient to restrain things from running their courses from the beginning appointed to the end appointed. For in Your Word, by which they were created, they hear: “From there to here.

—Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

Francis Collins is a Christian geneticist, formerly head of the Human Genome Project, now I believe he is the head of the National Institutes of Health. The Language of God is a book he wrote a handful of years ago, a book which I’ve recently had the pleasure to have read and highly recommend that everyone, believer or non-believer, get a copy and read it. There are times throughout the book where you’ll wish that you paid a little more attention in biology class, however, for the most part the book is very accessible, promoting an end to the wars between science and faith. The video above presents his book in the form of a lecture at California Institute of Technology, one of the many great lectures to have come from the Veritas Forum (www.veritas.org).  Watch and learn.

“No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be violated.”

“In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”

—C.S. Lewis, Miracles

A video featuring a series of posters for classic films beautifully designed by Atipo. Check out his website, www.atipo.es 

Veritas Forum, Timothy Keller. Watch and learn.