If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at once? A: The short answer: Because that’s how he decided to do it!

Affirming that design leads to health, coherence, and stability. Rejecting it leads to confusion, fragmentation, and harm. The same pattern emerges when you step into the energy debate. For centuries, ...

Reviewing Telmo Pievani’s book “Imperfection” (Oct. 26), David Barash agrees that human beings are “marvels of unintelligent design,” adding that we are “shot through with deficiencies that wouldn’t ...

Recently, my teenage son had a friend ask him, “How do you know God exists?” That's a big question. My observation is that many people of every age and stage of life, either publicly or privately, ...

Many religious types are staunch supporters of the thought that God created humans. They argue that everything created has a beginning, and God is that beginning, the cause of everything that exists.

When the infinite decides to create the finite, something remarkable happens: a spark of consciousness is born, capable of awareness and of uncertainty. In that act of creation, the absolute allows a ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Dear Pastor, If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at ...