Getting a chance to chat face-to-face is a big reason I’m making the trip to Massachusetts. To make those meetings easier, here is my schedule.Read more…
Science Corner: To Infinitesimal and Beyond!
And so we have a hero who saw the vast gulf of experience and communication between himself and other living creatures and decided to build a bridge.Read more…
Science Corner: Science, Ho!
This story about citizen scientists contributing their time at sea to science caught my eye.Read more…
ESN Local Boston: Hear Francis Collins at ASA 2018
Local to Boston? ASA wants to make it easy for you to hear Francis Collins and connect with ESN on July 28. Read more…
Hear Francis Collins at ASA 2018 ($300 Travel Scholarships Available)
Want to hear Francis Collins? Connect with ESN in person? Go to a faith/science conference on the beautiful grounds of Gordon College, near Boston? Read more…
How can Christians in science support science literacy among believers? (STEAM Grant Series)
In short, scientists must become disciplemakers and reproduce disciples who will also become scientists.Read more…
Science Corner: Ashes to Ashes, But What of Synthetic Dinosaurs?
This reflection on the themes of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom avoids spoilers, but as always feel free to wait until you’ve seen the movie if you want to know nothing about it when watching. It is widely reported that anRead more…
Science Corner: Lightning in a Novel
In essence, modern biology has grown up alongside Frankenstein and the science fiction genre.Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Strange Survivors by Oné Pagán
You are all but guaranteed to learn something new about God’s creativity as expressed through nature’s endless forms and to enjoy a chuckle in the process.Read more…
How should Christians in the sciences choose an epistemology? (STEAM Grant Series)
I used to teach a college course called “Epistemology” but the name scared off too many potential students, so we changed it to “Theories of Knowledge.”Read more…
Science in Review: A Droid in Every Garage
What it does with ships, Solo also does for droids, taking a ubiquitous feature of the setting and giving them their day in the twin suns.Read more…
Adam, Where are You? (STEAM Grant Series)
How much have you read about different models of human origin, from either a scientific or theological perspective?Read more…
Science in Review: Just Gotta Get Right Outta Here
For Han Solo, spaceships mean the freedom to go anywhere but here.Read more…
How did God Create? Different Views Christians Hold (STEAM Grant Series)
The perspective from which we view the evidence determines what we see and what is hidden. Read more…
Science Corner: What Even Is Real?!?
Can science help with our uncertainty about scientific questions?Read more…
STEAM Grant Series: How can we engage origins questions well?
Are you interested in talking about origins issues, but don’t know where to start? If so, you’re not alone.Read more…
Science Corner: We Can Remember It for You Wholesnail
By receiving RNA from the brain of another sea hare, recipients apparently acquired learned behavior from the donors.Read more…
How Can the History of Science Encourage the Church? Part 3: Modern Christianity (STEAM Grant Series)
What ideas shaped how we see the history of science today? Read more…
Science Corner: Sympathy for the Bedeviled
If not knowing is a form of freedom, how can it be that the truth will set us free?Read more…
How Can the History of Science Encourage the Church? Part 2: Medieval Christianity (STEAM Grant Series)
When it comes to faith and science, what can we learn from the Middle Ages? Read more…
Science in Review: Thor, Thanos and Theology
Not only does this theology equate divinity with supernatural power to the exclusion of power manifest as nature, it also seems to only consider power.Read more…
How Can the History of Science Encourage the Church? Part I (STEAM Grant Series)
Ask the average man or woman on the street for an opinion on science and religion, and they will likely tell you that they are in “conflict” or at “war.” Can the history of science change that narrative? Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 12
Are there laws that prescribe how the world behaves, or are what we call the laws of nature simply our descriptions of the behavior we observe?Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 11
If politics applies truth to arrive at policies, and if science is a way of discovering truth, then the two will inevitably be intertwined.Read more…