Fyodor Dostoyevsky figured it out this way:  the Devil certainly exists, and if the Devil exists, God certainly exists, for there can be no existing Devil without an existing God. The astrophysicists at CERN just announced that the Universe should not exist; therefore God does exist, for without God anti-matter  would have destroyed the  Universe at Creation. This Blogger became interested in astrophysics in the summer of 1988; he happened to be in West Berlin, and would have to get back to West Germany by taking a train through Communist East Germany. The Soviet Army had a massive concentration of troops at Magdeburg ( the  hills were black with Soviet field tents) waiting to attack NATO across the Northern German Plain. It was common knowledge that the STASI ( the Communist East German Secret Police) would stop the train outside of Magdeburg to size up the passengers. Under those circumstances, the choice of reading material would be crucial; this Blogger could not be found re

The two most interesting recent theologians  have to be Billy Graham, who found God the old fashion way, in the desert around Joshua Tree, California, and  Father  Teilhard de Chardin. Teilhard de Chardin was a  French Jesuit priest, who was trained as a paleontologist and geologist.  In Science, he helped discover the the ancient Peking man. In theology, he developed the concept of OMEGA POINT, the maximum level of complexity and consciousness which he believed the universe was evolving. The Jesuit believed that the Universe was evolving toward a complete understand of God. He developed the concept of noosphere,  “ a postulated sphere or stage of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships . "   Billy Graham offered and offers the fun, the joy, the Amazing Grace  of believing in God, the fun which comes from spirituality.  The French Jesuit’s basic tenet was that the true purpose of science was to find scientific proof of