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.

Why the Higgs Boson is a Big Deal

Natural Sciences

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 […]

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 […]

Alternative Way to Explain Life’s Complexity Proposed

Natural Sciences

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 […]

Human / Mouse Hybrid: Glial Cell Transplants

Natural Sciences

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 […]

 

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