Blog | Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D

Science: God’s Gift to Man

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Dec 30, 2020 | Evidence for God, Science, Reason & Faith

What does God intend when he gives us gifts? He means to give us joy, make us better, and glorify him. Science is one such gift from God.

Music, God’s Gift to Man: Music in the Church

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Nov 23, 2020 | Faith, Culture

Several years ago my spiritual director told me to study De Musica Sacra et Sacra Liturgia. Since then, music has shaped my devotion to the Church.

What Is Time? Part VI: Why God Created Time

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Sep 24, 2020 | Philosophy, Quantum Physics

In this sixth article of the series “What is Time,” we discuss the timelessness of God and why God created time to allow for free will and moral choice.

St. Augustine: Patron Saint of Geeks?

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Aug 27, 2020 | Science, Reason & Faith, Creation, Quantum Physics, Astronomy, God & Modern Physics

As a science and math geek, I need a patron saint. I choose St. Augustine of Hippo, whose insights into science and math were centuries ahead of his time.

What is Time? Part V: Quantum Time

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Jul 20, 2020 | Faith, Quantum Physics, God & Modern Physics

This is the fifth in a series of articles addressing the question “What is time?” Here I’ll examine how time in quantum mechanics is strange.

What is Time? Part IV: Relativity and Time

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Jun 29, 2020 | Philosophy, Quantum Physics, Astronomy, God & Modern Physics

In this piece, I’ll explain why relativity changes our view of time from an absolute dimension to one that depends on how we’re moving and where we are.

What is Time? Part III—Entropy, Time’s Arrow

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | May 21, 2020 | Philosophy, God & Modern Physics

This post discusses entropy—how change from order to disorder is measured as an increase in entropy and thus, how entropy is shown as "the arrow of time."

What is Time? Part II—How We Perceive Time

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Apr 21, 2020 | Philosophy, Quantum Physics, God & Modern Physics

In this second article on the series of how we perceive time, we focus on three perceptions: St. Augustine of Hippo, William James, and Oliver Sacks.

What is Time? Part I—Philosophy

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Mar 21, 2020 | Philosophy, Quantum Physics, God & Modern Physics

What is time? Philosophers have tried to explain it since antiquity. I’ll begin with what the ancient Greeks, Parmenides and Heraclitus, had to say.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: A Theologian for Our Time

by Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D | Feb 27, 2020 | Evidence for God, Faith, Science, Reason & Faith, Creation, Philosophy, Quantum Physics, Astronomy, God & Modern Physics

St. Augustine's wonderings about the nature of time fit with contemporary scientific theories—and are altogether in accord with our present-day confusion.