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Science Corner: “What Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture?”

June 12, 2024 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

It's Stanley Cup Finals time, and so I expect we are all asking ourselves the same question: How would you explain ice hockey to Bronze Age nomads from Canaan? Of course there will be a matter of translation. Words like "stick" and "net" presumably would map pretty directly. There'd probably be a word that shares meaning with "team" although maybe it would refer primarily to animals. "Offsides" is tricky to explain even to modern English speakers, but that's because there are a lot of details; the constituent concepts … [Read more...] about Science Corner: “What Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture?”

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: biological evolution, Charles Darwin, Dru Johnson, evolutionary biology, Genesis, Genesis 1, science, science corner

Science Corner: It *IS* a question of where he grips it!

July 12, 2023 by Andy Walsh 1 Comment

Something has been pulling the fake flowers off of our hummingbird feeder. Raccoons are the primary suspect. Hummingbirds don't seem strong enough, and don't need to tug at petals to feed. Also, the vandalism occurs overnight. Oh yeah, and there are the incriminating raccoon paw prints all around the feeder. Seemed pretty cut and dry. But then a headline about how "some hummingbirds are flower robbers" caught my eye. Maybe hummingbirds do engage in more than nectar sipping. … [Read more...] about Science Corner: It *IS* a question of where he grips it!

Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: evolutionary biology, hummingbirds, polari, science, science corner

Science Corner: Weltraumgötterdämmerung

May 10, 2023 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

This summer's installment of "If you don't teach your kids theology, Marvel Studios will" comes in the form of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Sure, it's not a Scorsesian theological treatise. At times it felt very much like a roller coaster ride--an impression helped along by the fact that just a month ago I was riding an actual Guardians of the Galaxy coaster with filmed story elements featuring the same cast. But every now and again, this technicolor space opera takes a breath between virtuosic cadenzas of violence … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Weltraumgötterdämmerung

Filed Under: Movie Reviews, Science and Faith Tagged With: biological evolution, evolutionary biology, Guardians of the Galaxy, science, science corner, theodicy

Science Corner: Dawn – A Proton’s Tale of All that Came to Be

October 12, 2022 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

Stop me if you've heard this one: a biophysicist, a writer, a theologian walk into a bar. OK, so that's not actually how Dawn was written, but the diverse backgrounds of the three co-writers--Cees Dekker, Corien Oranje, and Gijsbert van den Brink respectively--do sound more like résumés for the cast of a niche joke than for collaborators on a novel. And not just any novel, but one that spans 14 billion years--from the instants after the Big Bang until the moment the manuscript was sent to the printers (or so it seems, … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Dawn – A Proton’s Tale of All that Came to Be

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: Big Bang, Big Bang Theory, biological evolution, BioLogos, Cees Dekker, Corien Oranje, cosmological evolution, cosmology, Dawn, evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Creation, Gijsbert van den Brink, science, science corner

Science Corner: Unlocking Immunity

January 27, 2021 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

As you read this, millions of people around the world are making antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. None of those people were born with a gene for those specific antibodies. Yet in just a couple of weeks following exposure to the virus--or now, one of its proteins via a vaccine--their immune systems can make antibodies that bind tightly and very specifically to the outside of the coronavirus, inhibiting its ability to infect their cells. The close and unique match between antibody and antigen has been compared to the fit of … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Unlocking Immunity

Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: evolutionary biology, immunology, let's learn evolutionary biology together, science, science corner

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