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Science Corner: Do You Believe in Magic?

September 23, 2020 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Basically, by performing magic tricks for animals, or employing equipment inspired by stage magic techniques, we can figure out what is surprising to various animals and what is not. By learning how they expect to the world to work and what is unexpected to them, we can understand more about their models of cause and effect and their capacity for various sorts of abstract thought.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: Ig Nobel Prize, magic, science, science corner

Science in Review: A Strange Prescription for Reconciling Faith & Science

November 9, 2016 by Andy Walsh 2 Comments

If we are at the place where the natural and the supernatural meet, it is a place of fruitful collaboration, not strident conflict.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: doctor strange, film, magic, marvel, movies, mysticism, science, science in review

Science in Review — Movie Magic

January 28, 2015 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Photo of movie camera and cameraman, with actors out of focus in the background.

Hollywood loves the idea of a genius. Amadeus, The Social Network, A Beauiful Mind, to name but a few cinematic portraits of brilliant men, men who apparently have a direct line to the rarified realm of mathematics and music, perhaps even the mind of God, while the rest of us dabble in the shadows. This year added The Imitation […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: gender equality, intelligence, Intelligent Design, magic, science in review

Science In Review — Christmas Craft

December 24, 2014 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Frame from Its A Wonderful Life showing George Bailey on the bridge discovering Zuzus petals in his pocket.

At a neighborhood Christmas party, I had a lively and stimulating conversation about some of the technical elements of filmmaking–editing, cinematography, action choreography, and the like. . . . Now, if you’ve made it this far, you’re possibly wondering why I’m talking so much about art in a column nominally about science. I think it helps to illuminate how I think about magic, and how that relates to miracles. . . .

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science Tagged With: Advent, christmas, incarnation, magic, miracle, Miracles, science in review

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