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…
Science in Review: Dig the Future of Natural History
Taking pictures of creatures in the world around you can contribute valuable data about what species live where.Read more…
Science Corner: Digging into Natural History
Anning was a 19th century fossil collector whose work would form the foundation of paleontology. She found some of the first ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur skeletons. Read more…
Science Corner: Zooming Out on the World
Earlier this week, I was reading what Martin Luther King, Jr. had to say about science and religion, both to learn more about the man and to potentially add a theologian’s voice to our historical context.Read more…
Science Corner: Prime Real Estate
Mersenne primes are named for 17th century French scholar Marin Mersenne who was also an ordained priest.Read more…
Science Corner: Looking Back to Move Forward
So when it was recently brought to my attention that some readers might appreciate a better sense of why science is relevant to their faith, or why their faith is relevant to science, I thought it was a good time to reflect on those questions.Read more…
Science Corner: 2017 in Review
Reviewing the highlights from ESN’s science blogging for 2017, with a few thoughts for 2018.Read more…
Science in Review: Decision-Making A Long Time Ago and in a Future Not Far Away
Making decisions is challenging and risky. Why not let someone more intelligent with more information have that responsibility, even if that ‘someone’ is implemented in software.Read more…
Science in Review: On the Couch with Dr. Know
J. Nathan Matias and colleagues took up the possibility of using more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) to predict mental health outcomes for individuals.Read more…
Science in Review: Meet the New Boss, v4.8.23 of the Old Boss
I commend the whole series [on AI and Christianity] to you; the articles are brief introductions to a variety of topics in artificial intelligence and how they intersect with traditional Christian thinking and concerns, along with resources for more details.Read more…
Science Corner: My Mental Health Story
November is when advocates for mental health and suicide prevention make a push for awarenessRead more…
Science Corner: Offering Thanks for Science & Technology
I’d love to hear from you about developments in science, technology, or your area of study that have you feeling thankful today.Read more…
Science Corner: Choosing Whom to Serve
How do we use the Bible for common ground when there are so many ways to interpret it?Read more…
Science Corner: More Machine Now Than Man
Indeed, it is not hard to imagine a day when computers are deemed to possess comparable intelligence to humans because we have convinced ourselves that our own intellects are entirely computational.Read more…
Science in Review: Reformation Comes to the Book of Nature
This week we observe the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s hammer stroke heard ’round the world.Read more…
Science Book Review: Jesus, Beginnings, and Science
Dave & Kate Vosburg bring us a discussion guide to help break the ice on conversations about science and creation.Read more…
Science Book Club: Quantum Physics and Theology Ch 5 & Review
I am persuaded that anyone interested in how we learn about God and why certain approaches are more fruitful than others will find this book enlightening.Read more…
Science Book Club: Quantum Physics and Theology Ch 4
If we’re meant to believe these things on faith, or really at all, why leave so many open questions?Read more…
Science Book Club: Quantum Physics and Theology Ch 3
Even if we admit some sense of progress in science whereby knowledge accumulates and truth is monotonically, if perhaps asymptotically, approached, we can also appreciate that answering questions reveals more questions we didn’t previously know we should be asking.Read more…
Science Book Club: Quantum Physics and Theology Ch 2
One thing I really appreciate about Polkinghorne is his frank and direct emphasis of Jesus at the center of his theology.Read more…
Science Corner: Uncracked Codes
A good mystery offers many pleasures: the allure of secret knowledge, the hints of reality beyond what we already know, the neurochemical satisfaction of solving a puzzles.Read more…