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Science Book Review: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants Ch 4-6

February 6, 2019 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

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Last week I tried to rectify the dearth of botany in my blog coverage by covering the first few chapters of Stefano Mancuso's The Revolutionary Genius of Plants, and this week we'll pick up where we left off. Mancuso thinks that we can learn much from plants, not least because they have such different solutions to life's major challenges. As we discussed, one of those differences is that animals tend to have dedicated organs for various functions while plants tend to spread out functions throughout their bodies. In … [Read more...] about Science Book Review: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants Ch 4-6

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: botany, science, science book club, science in review, Stefano Mancuso, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants

Science Book Review: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants Ch 1-3

January 30, 2019 by Andy Walsh 1 Comment

Despite being a biologist, I'll admit that I've neglected plant biology relative to some other areas. As a student of molecular and microbiology, I suppose I've not paid as much attention to macroscopic organisms in general, but one picks up a certain amount of animal biology because it is similar to human biology. And the kinds of evolutionary biology conversations that come up in Christian circles often focus on animal evolution, presumably because animals are familiar and because human evolution is the most … [Read more...] about Science Book Review: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants Ch 1-3

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: botany, science, science book club, science in review, Stefano Mancuso, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants

Science Corner: Christmas Reading

December 26, 2018 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

Get any good science-related books or gifts for Christmas? I got a copy of Viruses as Complex Adaptive Systems by Ricard Solé and Santiago F. Elena that I'm looking forward to digging into. I got my son a copy of The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life by Jack Challoner that he seems excited about. He also received copies of Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything and Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe that he has previously enjoyed … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Christmas Reading

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: science, science book club, science corner, year in review

Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 12

April 25, 2018 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

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Are definitions descriptive or prescriptive? That's a classic conversation about language. I enjoyed this recent Twitter exchange that encapsulates the discussion well. Neil.— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 13, 2018 Neil deGrasse Tyson seems to come down on the prescriptive side, or at least would prefer that meanings remain static. Most dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster, aspire only to describe how we use and have used them. Dictionary editors don't want to be in the business of legislating … [Read more...] about Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 12

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: blog book club, David Lindberg, laws of nature, Ronald Numbers, science book club, When Science and Christianity Meet

Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 11

April 18, 2018 by Andy Walsh 4 Comments

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When I chose When Science and Christianity Meet for our book discussion, I thought it would keep us away from current politics. I figured The War on Science had given us enough of that for a while. Yet as the historical narrative encroaches further on the present, the relevance becomes harder to deny. If politics applies truth to arrive at policies, and if science is a way of discovering truth, then the two will inevitably be intertwined. That was the case in the Scopes trial nearly a century ago, and it's the case now. … [Read more...] about Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 11

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: blog book club, David Lindberg, evolutionary biology, Ronald Numbers, science, science book club, Scopes trial, When Science and Christianity Meet

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