Since I’m at the beach this week, it seems like a good time to leave you with a review of Ruth Kassinger’s Slime, a broad survey of all the ways scientists and entrepreneurs are solving problems with algae.Read more…
Science Corner: Lent 2019
Since [Pope Francis] is a scientist and a theologian, I thought he would be a good point of reference [on Lenten practice].Read more…
Science Corner: The Advent and the Apocalypse
We are imperfect creators, and so not everything about our new world is good. We may still have the ability to mitigate some of the imperfections, but to do so we first need the humility to accept our limitations as creators.Read more…
Science Corner: A Bumper Crop of Science
Some weeks it can be tricky to find a way into the science news that might be of interest to those outside the specific community of investigation. But not this week.Read more…
Science Book Club: The War on Science Ch 11-13
This is the “what then shall we do?” section. As with the rest of the book, it is sweeping and ambitious in scope.Read more…
Science Book Club: The War on Science Ch 9-10
[T]he material on climate science is important and worth framing in a broader context, and obviously Otto is correct that evangelicals question evolutionary biology in large numbers, but I’m not persuaded that Otto is as engaged with the the religious topics to make such strong assertions about religion.Read more…
Science Corner: The Demon (And the Angel?) in the Permafrost
We may need to come up with a more practical plan … because the permafrost is melting and ancient organisms may be coming back to life: not mammoths, but microbes.Read more…
Science Corner: No Lefts Make a Right
UPS found a way to nearly eliminate left turns from their delivery routes and save millions of gallons of fuel in the process.Read more…
Science Corner: One Man’s CO2
We can turn this rising smoke into rising cookies.Read more…
Book Review: Let Creation Rejoice
A scientist and a theologian get together to assess both environmental trends and biblical teaching and contend that there are reasons for serious concern, concerted action, and because of the gospel, for hope.Read more…
Science in Review: Setting the Truth (About the Climate) Free
[I]n light of the Pope’s encyclical it feels like the time has come to at least acknowledge the ongoing [climate change] conversation.Read more…
The Jamaica Call to Action (Part 2): Ten ‘Calls’
The Jamaica Call to Action is unique not only in the two concise convictions on which the document is based (see the previous post), but also because of the comprehensive and specific ‘Calls’ that make up the core of theRead more…
ClimateGate, Christianity, and Politics
No, not those politics. I’m talking about the real stuff: academic politics. How should Christians navigate the deep waters of academic politics? Photo by Marshall Astor via Flickr “ClimateGate“1 is now a couple of weeks old. The theft and releaseRead more…