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An unfolding drama of awakening
John Haught dismantles the impoverished reasoning of most contemporary cosmology.
Strange sounds in deep water
In 1958, Frank Watlington was listening for Soviet submarines when he stumbled onto an alien world.
Believing in the future
Everything I learn about science fills me with spiritual wonder.
The adoration of the volcanologists
Fire of Love is an unusual science documentary.
Evolutionary science meets evangelical faith
How teachers are helping students accept science without losing their religion
by Dean Nelson
Where my faith and my work as a scientist meet
It’s difficult to study the phylogenetic tree and still feel lonely.
by Emily Boring
Steven Pinker’s absolute faith in reason
"This is not a book of Enlightenolatry," writes Pinker. But it is.
Why scientific thinking matters for society
Andrew Shtulman's book isn't just about understanding data. It's about moral concern.
Living the truth, not just believing it
Well-aligned spokes make a bicycle wheel true. Truthful living gives a person credibility.
What we need from scientists
It’s hard enough to distinguish fact from fiction. Then there’s the matter of interpretation.
We can learn a lot from interdisciplinary conversation. But we are sometimes puzzled by how our colleagues know what they seem to know.
Why does antiscience sentiment gain such traction in America? Conservatives deserve some blame, but so does the scientific community.
We might still pray for rain, but we can account for thunder without invoking bowling gods. Is there still a place for God?
by J. B. Stump
Kitty Ferguson's biography of Stephen Hawking is an important book for anyone interested in who and what we are—and where we're going.
Alvin Plantinga posits a profound conflict between naturalism and science. This extraordinary claim is deeply counterintuitive.
reviewed by Karl W. Giberson
The same week the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle—which may be the missing puzzle piece for physics’ theory of everything—we also learned that some 46 percent of poll respondents hold “creationist views of human origins.” I might not be as incensed as Katha Pollitt is, but I’m distressed by this poll.
Long ago, another atmospheric shift took place. It shows how different the earth's environments have been—and how different they may become.