Dr Paul Allen

Photo of merchandise inside Despair, Inc.'s Austin warehouse. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The human body starts dying at age 25. Our twenties slap us with the expiration date of sin’s curse ( Genesis 6:3): slowly, in our ligaments; tightly, in our muscle fibers ; subtly, checking for bumps; decimally, with a rising BMI. We feel death in our twenties; emotionally and relationally, in ugly and odious ways. Death latches its chain to our frame, slowly pulling us deep into an answer to the question “Death, where is your sting?” ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ). Our twenties bring so many answers to that question — transition, failure, desperation, dependence, accusation, responsibility, moral failure, stagnation, unfulfillment. “ Sting ” isn’t sufficient. Our twenties can be a dark time. Aspects of Quarter-Life Crisis There are (at least) five feelings that overwhelm and disillusion the wandering young saints, day after day. 1. Disappointment “I thought things would be better.”

English: Freeman Dyson (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Major revolutions in science are somewhat rare and frequently ignored by the nonscientist. A new book titled The New Story of Science hopes to make the most recent revolution more understandable. The book is the culmination of five years of collaborative effort by theoretical physicist George Stanciu and philosopher Robert Augros. They believe they hear the creak of masts and timbers as the ship of science alters the course plotted for it in earlier centuries. Every civilization has a cosmic worldview, or story. The scientific story that was gradually built up by research in physics and biology during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries was progressively materialistic. But now, argue these authors, science is shifting from this old story to a new story due to the startling discoveries of Einstein, Heisenberg, Sherrington, Eccles, and Penfield. In the early phases of modern science, theism was still dominant. Newto