It’s Chaos out There, and God’s in it Somewhere
by Mike McKinniss

“Chaos theory! :: Teoria del caos!” by Jonathan Emmanuel Flores Tarello under license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Death and taxes, man. Death and taxes.
Uncertainty plagues us all. It is fundamental to the human condition for two infuriating reasons. One: the universe is far too vast and complex to know intimately the interrelated causalities affecting your future. Call it chaos theory, the butterfly effect, whatever—it’s what God tells Job at the conclusion of his eponymous text: we’re too small to know it all.
Another major cause of uncertainty in our lives, frustrating as it is: all these 7 billion people keep making up their own minds about what they’re going to do all the time. It’s maddening. Read the rest of this entry »