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Science
| Digging the Bible: Don’t bet against it |
| The more people sift through the sands of the Holy Land, the more objects they turn up. These recovered objects are silent witnesses to the lives and times of the razor-thin slice of humanity captured in the Bible. Here are some recent, apparently genuine, finds: |
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| Expelled film: If Scientists You Know Get Expelled, You May As Well Know Why |
| Mid-August last year I gave a talk at a conference in Seattle, Washington, on the findings of a book I co-authored, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul (Harper One 2007). |
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| Transplant ethics: Dr. Murray, meet Dr. Market! |
This year Interpol issued one of its rare red notices, urgently seeking the arrest— anywhere on the planet—of the mastermind of a kidney theft ring. Yes, yes, it seems like the stuff of urban legend (stuff you’re not supposed to believe), but in some parts of the globalized world, having one of your kidneys stolen is a genuine risk.
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| Atheist philosopher follows the evidence where it leads ... to God! |
| Why did the world’s most important atheist scholar, Antony Flew decide in his eighties that there is a God after all? The New York Times was quick to suggest senility, but reading his book co-authored with Roy Varghese, I don’t think that will wash. Their slender hardcover, There IS a God (Harper One 2007) introduces us to a genteel Oxford world in which atheism did not mean “hassle Christians,” “ban Christmas,” “make religious education child abuse,” et cetera. In fact, Flew even reveals that he and his wife did not have sexual relations before their marriage out of moral conviction. I wonder how many avowed Christian couples can say that today? |
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| Bring back the old gods, says prof |
| Is there any idea so unusual that a professor cannot be found somewhere to advocate it? |
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| The twilight of atheism - yes, despite the hype |
| This summer I was reading Oxford historian Alister McGrath’s lucid Twilight of Atheism (2004), which tackles modern atheism’s rise - and then its fall. Despite the recent flurry of anti-God books and events (The God Delusion, The End of Faith, the YouTube Blasphemy Challenge, etc.), the crusade exudes an unmistakable air of desperation, remarked by many observers. Don’t beleieve me? Well, atheist science historian Michael Ruse broke ranks and endorsed an opposing book called The Dawkins Delusion. |
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| Myths about science and religion: A little research saves a lot of apology |
| The ignorance and opposition to science of religious folk has been a staple of antireligious tracts for centuries. Often, the tales remind me of bogus miracle stories – so good they can’t be false. Two recent examples are worth noting: |
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| Christians vanishing ... from sciences? |
| When I first started researching the intelligent design controversy, I often heard from Christian notables in science that there was no conflict between faith and science. I didn’t suppose that there was a conflict, actually, but I soon came to realize that there is an inevitable conflict between strong Darwinian evolutionists and Christianity. A recent study of the views of key Darwinian evolutionists confirms my best guess – and raises some interesting questions about the Christian community in North America. |
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| Does free will really exist? Probably, according to recent science |
| Suppose you do something that you know is wrong. Did you “have to” do it? Or did you make a choice? Debate over “free will” has raged for thousands of years. |
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| Christian Greens?: Some Cautions about Christian Environmentalism |
| The other night I appeared on an episode of Behind the Story, a CTS (Channel 9) show that collects a group of journalists to talk about the way news is covered. On this episode, all the panelists were Christians, and we were asked about the “green Christian” environmental movement (sometimes called creation care), pioneered by such luminaries as Rick Warren and Tony Campolo. I was hardly the only panelist who had some misgivings about it. Let me outline them. |
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