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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…
I think it’s worth remembering that roughly 100 years ago, no language had a word for ‘gene.’Read more…
The quality of our science will increase proportionately with and as a direct consequence of the diversity of our scientists.Read more…
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…
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…
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…
We figured it was time for a follow-up on what to do once you’ve found the postdoc you were looking for.Read more…
Postdocs occupy a weird, liminal space in the path of the scholar.Read more…
Friend of ESN Andy Bocarsly is the speaker for a meetup of Christians at the American Chemical Society in Boston on August 20. We hope lots of ESN members can make it. Read more…
Here’s your chance to let us know what you’d like to read about this fall from ESN’s science coverage!Read more…
With the American Scientific Affiliation meeting coming up this week, I’ve got connecting on the brain. And now after catching up with the science news, I’m also thinking about the connections in the fruit fly brain.Read more…
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…
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…
This story about citizen scientists contributing their time at sea to science caught my eye.Read more…
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…
In essence, modern biology has grown up alongside Frankenstein and the science fiction genre.Read more…
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…
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…
For Han Solo, spaceships mean the freedom to go anywhere but here.Read more…
Can science help with our uncertainty about scientific questions?Read more…
By receiving RNA from the brain of another sea hare, recipients apparently acquired learned behavior from the donors.Read more…
If not knowing is a form of freedom, how can it be that the truth will set us free?Read more…
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…
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…