…understanding the chemical and physiological reactions that generate emotions can enrich rather than impoverish my relationship to music and art.Read more…
Science Corner: Hacking your Donor List
If your experience is anything like mine, your 2018 wrapped up with a blitz of requests for end-of-year charitable contributions.Read more…
Science Corner: Christmas Reading
If you have some extra time for a holiday or winter break and are looking for something to read, allow me to remind you of the books we’ve discussed over the past year.Read more…
Science Corner: Star Signs in the Space Age
The grandest ambitions of the human race require always more, and so we imagine living out among the stars, or at the very least on other planets.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: The Future, Fast and Slow
When Jesus was born as the Son of God incarnate, the future arrived in a very tangible way.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 Corner: Prayers and Placebos
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States, a time for gratitude and community. Intangible qualities like these challenge science, since they don’t lend themselves as readily to quantifying or to controlled investigation.Read more…
Science Book Review: Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?
The result is a wide-ranging exploration of questions, some specific to the present science-faith conversation and some raised perennially by skeptics and curious seekers.Read more…
Science Corner: A Century of the Flu
Neither humanity’s first nor last widespread encounter with influenza, the 1918-19 pandemic is notable for how quickly and widely it spread: in less than 6 months it was on every continent and ultimately infected as many as 1 out of every 3 people on the planet.Read more…
Science Corner: The Making of a Monster
This week, I want to highlight the science of Frankenstein.Read more…
Science Book Review: Scientism and Secularism
[Scientism and Secularism] is clearly aimed at fellow Christians who agree with Moreland that science is taking influence away from the church and who need help articulating why theology and religion are still relevant.Read more…
Science Corner: Finding Your Way Through Math
Topology is a standard topic in mathematics; topiary less so. That’s why I thought it was pretty cool to read about a mathematician-designed maze in celebration of the Abel Prize.Read more…
Science Corner: Take Me to Your Victrola
Truly universal truths can be more elusive than they seem.Read more…
Science Corner: What the FOXP2 Say
Regardless of how one understands our relationship to the animal kingdom, many of us are interested in what distinguishes us biologically from animals, especially the animals most similar to us: chimpanzees, gorillas, and the like.Read more…
Snapshots of “Freedom All the Way Up”
God created the universe(s) to provide the space and conditions for the emergence of habitable bio-niches in which agape-capable beings would eventually emerge to live in agape-love relations with God and with others. Earth is one such emergent bio-niche, and Homo sapiens are an instance of such emergent agape-loving beings. In other words, the telos (purpose) of the universe is to be birthing-space, nursery, and home for agape-capable beings in relationships and actions of agape-love towards God and others. – Christian Barrigar, Faith All the Way Up: God and the Meaning of Life in a Scientific Age, 21Read more…
Science in Review: Seeing the Random Forest for the Trees
We talk a lot about science here, but science isn’t just talk. I thought maybe we could roll up our sleeves and try a little science.Read more…
Science Corner: Pack Your Genes for the Cruise
What would it take to preserve all vertebrate life, and to what end?Read more…
Faith Across The Multiverse Book Club Event
What inspired you to write Faith across the Multiverse? “Inspiration came from many directions, including the story I tell in the book about making a spontaneous connection between math and theology during a group Bible study. But I think the biggest one was spending time chatting with comic book fans and seeing how many of them took for granted that being intelligent or scientific automatically ruled out belief in God. . . .”Read more…
Science Corner: The Word for ‘Gene’
I think it’s worth remembering that roughly 100 years ago, no language had a word for ‘gene.’Read more…
Science Corner: Throw Open the Gates of Science
The quality of our science will increase proportionately with and as a direct consequence of the diversity of our scientists.Read more…
Snapshots of “Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?”
I recommend Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science by Ian Hutchinson (and related videos) as a resource for personal questions, conversation, an interactive discussion group, and / or presentation preparation.Read more…
Science Corner: Summer Science News Round-Up
We’ve had a busy summer–traveling, going to the movies, releasing a book–leaving less time to talk about current research. And there have been several recent stories making the rounds in Christian circles. They touch on questions many of us haveRead more…
Science Corner: Giving Thanks for 6 Years of ESN Science Blogging
Next month will be 6 years that I’ve been blogging about science and related topics for the Emerging Scholars Network. Which means that just about exactly 6 years ago, Tom Grosh called me up and invited me to write forRead more…