Content on God's Creation and Our Creation (Page 2)
As humans have gained increasing control over their environment, what are our new moral and religious responsibilities? How can we bring awareness of our changing role in the world to our environment? How does our creative nature mirror God’s?
These are a few of the questions that this Sinai and Synapses Discussion Forum explores.
Pickerel Frogs and Proxima-b
What does it mean to find something in a place we just don’t expect to find it?
Climate Change as a Story
Big Stories, like the ones forged by religion, could be a powerful motivator for climate action. How might we use this way of thinking to spur action while staying scientific?
“Counter-Intuitive” Doesn’t Mean “Impossible”
Our lives as we know it are only possible because there is an invisible, counter-intuitive framework woven into the fabric of reality.
In The Image of God
Written into very rules that give us DNA is the capability to become aware of God’s existence.
Should Black Holes Praise Their Creator?
All stars have light, even the ones that don’t seem to have it on the surface.
CRISPR, the Eclipse and Rabbi Solovetchik
We need to remember that our creativity, our ability to shape the world and change it, is a gift from God.
For God So Loved the Earth
Religion can inspire and mobilize us as stewards of the earth rather than encourage our unsustainable status quo.
How Awe Makes Us Better People
David Borger Germann examines how the brain registers awe, and how we can bring this feeling to everyday experience, suffusing life with new interest and meaning.
Trading Meaning for Power
Meaning is contextual. It allows us to change the story. And that, too, is a source of power.
Can Humans Create a Soul?
Is there some unique essence that separates natural-born humans from creations that seem to reproduce the same electro-chemical workings as the human brain (“a soul”)?
Planet Earth II Renews Our View of Creation
Sometimes we need to be jolted out of our daily complacency to see the true wonder of the natural world.
A Scientific Creation Cantata
One of the discoverers of the Higgs boson — who is also the president of a Reform synagogue — offers meditations on the creation story.