Why The Higgs Boson is a Big Deal — A brief interview (8 minute audio clip + text) with Yale materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez who fashions herself as an “evangelist for science.” In this follow-up to a series of articles in Forbes, she makes a case for science doing more to promote its work and […]
Items included on this page come from a variety of sources. The perspectives conveyed may or may not express a Lutheran ethos. They can serve our instruction as discussion-starters, examples (positive and negative), and illustrations of intersections between God’s two kingdoms, intersections sometimes characterized by tension, sometimes by congruence. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
Were the Church Fathers Consistently Pro-Life?
Were the Church Fathers Consistently Pro-Life? — Ron Sider, who founded Evangelicals for Social Action, has written on a variety of ethical issues (Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action). In The Early Church on Killing (Baker Academic, 2012), Sider turns from advocacy to scholarship, compiling every extant extrabiblical […]
Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion?
Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion? — Can science, with its systematic approach to understanding nature, offer a satisfying portrait of the natural world and our place within it? Can science provide the same existential benefits typically thought to be the sole province of religion? Some recent psychological findings suggest that it can. But […]
Alternative Way to Explain Life’s Complexity Proposed
Alternative Way to Explain Life’s Complexity Proposed — Biologists have proposed various ways that ‘irreducibly complex’ structures could emerge incrementally over time, bit by bit. But a new study proposes an alternative route.Instead of starting from simpler precursors and becoming more intricate, some structures could have evolved from complex beginnings that gradually grew simpler: “complexity […]
Science in Focus: What I Wish I’d Known
Science in Focus: What I Wish I had Known — by John Wilson. The first three installments of this Science in Focus series helps me see that all too often, our God is too small. The Creator of the universe always has more tricks up his sleeve. At the same time, I am reminded that […]
Virtue and Vice Among the Molecules: Nanotech and Religious Belief
Virtue and Vice among the Molecules by Chris Toumey (Covalence Apr 2012) If it is true that there are important issues of right and wrong in nanotechnology, and that religious people care about right and wrong, then why have religious people invested so little attention in nanotech? This question is important because three surveys indicate […]
Human / Mouse Hybrid: Glial Cell Transplants
Human / Mouse Hybrid: Glial Transplants Nero-scientists injected some human glial cells into the brains of newborn mice. The mice grew up, and so did the human glial cells. The cells spread through the mouse brain, integrating perfectly with mouse neurons and, in some areas, outnumbering their mouse counterparts. The researchers say these mice are […]
Gallup: Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design
Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Gallup 1982-2012 –Twenty years of Gallup polls on popular views about human origins: consider the terms and the way the questions are framed.
Models, Examples, and Suggestions for Instruction
True Paradox: How Christianity Make Sense of Our Complex World by David Skeel (Veritas Books IVP, 2014)
David Skeel teaches corporate law at the UofPenn Law School. This book calmly presents five chapters in 160 pages that explain the Christian account of life to a skeptical, distracted, yet still-interested society. No simple answers here to human complexities. Rather, Skeel discusses how these complexities point us toward Christ.
