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Science Corner: Employees, Wash Your Hands Before Returning to the Moon

October 23, 2019 by Andy Walsh No Comments

photo of person washing hands at a sink with a bar of soap

As I wrangle more conversations into a shareable format for our sci-fi film festival (thanks for your patience), let’s return to a sci-fi topic encroaching on our reality: extraterrestrial life.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: aliens, life on Mars, science, science corner

Science Book Review: Vessel

August 28, 2019 by Andy Walsh No Comments

The setup is that astronaut Catherine Wells has returned to Earth after a nine year absence, the sole survivor of a interstellar mission written off as a complete loss years earlier. She has no recollection of the critical portions of her journey, and thus cannot explain where her crewmates are, why she was gone for so long, and how she got back.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: aliens, first contact, Lisa Nichols, science, science book club, Vessel

Science Corner: Arithmophobia & Other Language Barriers

November 16, 2016 by Andy Walsh 8 Comments

Collage of math notation, geometric figures and function plots

It’s like reading a foreign language without ever acquiring a significant vocabulary; you never stop needing to look up terms in the dictionary.

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Filed Under: Life in the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: aliens, communication, first contact, linguistics, mathematics, science, science corner

Who’s Afraid of Angels and Aliens, Alienation and Etcetera?

June 1, 2012 by Roy Joseph 2 Comments

Socially speaking, as opposed to orations in solipsism, it can be quite alienating to bring up the promises and perils of alien life, especially in the middle of a serious conversation.  By aliens, I do not mean our fellow human beings who rarely ever garner the support of rabid nationalists anywhere. Imagine the late Jean […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Science and Faith, Vocation Tagged With: alien, alienation, aliens, angel, angels, Astronomy, bible, Buddhism, Confuciainism, creation, hinduism, jesus, metaphysics, Prayer, sin, space, time, time management, Yahweh

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