Getting a chance to chat face-to-face is a big reason I’m making the trip to Massachusetts. To make those meetings easier, here is my schedule.Read more…
Science Corner: To Infinitesimal and Beyond!
And so we have a hero who saw the vast gulf of experience and communication between himself and other living creatures and decided to build a bridge.Read more…
Science Corner: Science, Ho!
This story about citizen scientists contributing their time at sea to science caught my eye.Read more…
Science Corner: Ashes to Ashes, But What of Synthetic Dinosaurs?
This reflection on the themes of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom avoids spoilers, but as always feel free to wait until you’ve seen the movie if you want to know nothing about it when watching. It is widely reported that anRead more…
Science Corner: Lightning in a Novel
In essence, modern biology has grown up alongside Frankenstein and the science fiction genre.Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Strange Survivors by Oné Pagán
You are all but guaranteed to learn something new about God’s creativity as expressed through nature’s endless forms and to enjoy a chuckle in the process.Read more…
Science in Review: A Droid in Every Garage
What it does with ships, Solo also does for droids, taking a ubiquitous feature of the setting and giving them their day in the twin suns.Read more…
Science in Review: Just Gotta Get Right Outta Here
For Han Solo, spaceships mean the freedom to go anywhere but here.Read more…
Science Corner: What Even Is Real?!?
Can science help with our uncertainty about scientific questions?Read more…
Science Corner: We Can Remember It for You Wholesnail
By receiving RNA from the brain of another sea hare, recipients apparently acquired learned behavior from the donors.Read more…
Science Corner: Sympathy for the Bedeviled
If not knowing is a form of freedom, how can it be that the truth will set us free?Read more…
Science in Review: Thor, Thanos and Theology
Not only does this theology equate divinity with supernatural power to the exclusion of power manifest as nature, it also seems to only consider power.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 11
If politics applies truth to arrive at policies, and if science is a way of discovering truth, then the two will inevitably be intertwined.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 10
It makes sense to me that the mind is not fully reducible to the brain and its activity, and that mental states are causally meaningful. At the same time, it makes sense that the mind is mediated by the brain, arising from the numerous interactions of nerve cells and other biological entities, possibly as an outgrowth of sensory perception turned inward.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 9
The Easter season is a natural time for Christians to reflect on miracles, as the resurrection of Jesus is the central miracle of our tradition.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 8
Evolutionary biology is a challenging topic; the history of the Christian church’s reaction to it, doubly so. Continuing a theme running throughout When Science and Christianity Meet, David Livingston identifies the human element as a major complicating factor. Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 7
As far as I can tell you are all the family I was born with, and to the extent it is up to me you are all also the family I choose.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 6
How do you reconcile science and the Bible when one can be updated by new data and the other cannot?Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 5
If you can sing a children’s song about the Ark, you’ll probably agree with Janet Browne that the Noah story is “deeply embedded” in our minds and culture. A story so familiar and beloved must be addressed with care.Read more…
ESN Meetup: American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Expo
Going to the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Expo in New Orleans, LA (March 18-22)? A few friends of ESN will be at the meetings and desire to connect with you.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 4
Start talking about morphallactic regeneration and now you’ve really got the attention of this biologist.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 3
How can such a foreign idea feel so familiar? That was my recurring question from William Ashworth’s essay “Christianity and the Mechanistic Universe.” Ashworth’s approach is wide ranging, weaving threads from ancient Greek philosophy with the nascent science of sixteenRead more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 2
How comfortable are you with the role of chance in the study of history?Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 1
We’re in the first week of our blog book club on When Science & Christianity Meet and taking a look at chapter 1.Read more…