evolution

How teachers are helping students accept science without losing their religion

Yes and no, says the data.

Maybe not, say new books by Richard Wrangham and Nicholas Christakis.

Peanut allergies are rare in Africa, where children are exposed early and often to a variety of microbes that we might regard as old friends.

The biological concept of convergence lends credence to a Christian view of providence—and fits with a scriptural account of a story-shaped world.

We all belong to a collective, evolutionary process in which we, like the ants, work together to build our community and preserve the species.

Microscopes reveal countless worlds inside the world, from cells to tiny structures within cells diligently performing mysterious tasks.

We wish something would prove beyond doubt that Someone obliged us large-brained, bipedal primates with a breath of consciousness.

Randomness is distinct from the Greek concept of chance. Conflating the two imports to science the sense that random events are gratuitous.

Many people have an intuition that the natural world shows purpose, order, or providence. Benjamin Jantzen does a marvelous job analyzing the attempts to turn that intuition into arguments.

Stephen Jay Gould regarded science and religion as addressing different kinds of questions. Owen Gingerich goes a step farther with a more nuanced approach.

For Andrew Elphinstone, human selfishness and violence are not evidence of a world gone wrong. They show a person ripe for transformation.

That Ken Ham guy is pretty slick with words. This was clear before his evolution v. creation debate with Bill Nye last night, including in his preamble at CNN.

We can learn a lot from interdisciplinary conversation. But we are sometimes puzzled by how our colleagues know what they seem to know.

I'm always happy to see MSM articles that challenge assumptions about conservative evangelicals, the religious community in which I grew up. Particularly when they aren't just about electoral politics.

This post by David Wheeler highlights a group a lot of people probably haven't considered: evangelical homeschoolers whose reasons for opting out of the school system have nothing to do with objecting to the teaching of evolution.

Why does antiscience sentiment gain such traction in America? Conservatives deserve some blame, but so does the scientific community.

An interdisciplinary group of scholars met recently to discuss religion in light of evolutionary biology.

WTF, Evolution? is the most enjoyable Tumblr I've come across this side of the unassailable, if a tad nichier, Every Day I'm Pastorin'. Basically it's pictures of ridiculous-looking animals and then commentary, often in the form of a dialogue between evolution and a bewildered observer.

We might still pray for rain, but we can account for thunder without invoking bowling gods. Is there still a place for God?