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March 2020

March 03, 2020

Listen to Music as It Sounded in the Hagia Sophia 500 Years Ago

Science and the arts have worked together to recreate what music would have sounded like...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

What God Are We Trying to Be?

We often note how human beings "play God" and, following the Serpent's temptation (Gen. 3:5),...

January 21, 2020

The Reformation and Science

As scholars have been demonstrating, Christianity has played a major role in the rise of...

January 02, 2020

The Mutuality Between Mothers and Their Developing Babies

Medical science is learning more and more about pregnancy and fetal development. We now know...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

Erasing Bad Memories

We are the sum of our experiences throughout our lives, and our memories continue to...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Giving Up on Darwin

David Gelertner--a mathematician, an important computer scientist, a full professor at Yale--has announced that he...

August 08, 2019

Part Human, Part Rat

Japanese scientists have announced plans to generate embryos that are hybrids of human beings and...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

The Shroud of Turin Is Not a Medieval Hoax After All?

The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth long venerated as the burial shroud of...

July 02, 2019

Academics Questioning “Rationality” & “Reason”

Postmodernists believe that there is no objective truth, that all truths are "constructions." Add in...

June 2019

June 20, 2019

Lost in a Meaningless Universe

We Christians often speak of non-believers as "lost." That is no metaphor today. For all...

April 2019

April 11, 2019

Seeing a Black Hole

We used to think that science is reductionistic, that once we have a "scientific" explanation...

October 2018

October 03, 2018

Making “Humanized Mice” with Aborted Fetal Tissue–Cancelled!

Researchers have been combining human DNA with that of mice. The goal of generating these...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

The Middle Ages Were the Age of Reason; Ours Is the Age of Faith

I enjoy it when conventional wisdom gets turned upside down. A good example appeared in...

September 06, 2018

That Life & the Universe Cannot Be Mindless Accidents

I came across this interesting piece in Touchstone from a couple of years ago. It's by software...

July 2018

July 19, 2018

The Replication Crisis in Science

According to the scientific method, experimental results need to be replicable. That is, for a...

May 2018

May 16, 2018

The Abdication of the Medical Profession

The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and...

May 09, 2018

How the Real Thanos Wiped Out Millions

We finally watched Avengers: Infinity War. The super villain in that story is Thanos, who has...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

The New Discovery of Your Body’s Biggest Organ

Scientists have discovered a new organ in the body. In fact, it is the largest...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

How Science & Art Come Together in Da Vinci’s “Savior of the World”

Leonardo da Vinci was not only a great artist. He was also a great scientist--and...

November 13, 2017

“The Universe Should Not Actually Exist”

According to contemporary physics, at the "Big Bang" at which the universe came into existence,...

October 2017

October 03, 2017

“Religion Is More Like Sex Than School”

Research is showing that religion is not just a learned behavior or intellectual assent to...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

Wittenberg’s Reformation of Science

Martin Luther was not the only faculty member of the University of Wittenberg to spark...

August 2017

August 21, 2017

Does the eclipse mean anything?

We are having a good time in Australia, but I greatly regret having to miss the...

August 08, 2017

More Biblical illiteracy from the media

A study of DNA from modern Lebanon found that its population is descended from the...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

The academic effects of marijuana: A controlled experiment

Marijuana is legal in the Netherlands, with "cannabis cafes" being a fixture of university towns....

July 28, 2017

American scientists “edit” the genes of human embryos

For the first time, American scientists have "edited" the DNA of developing children. The...

July 18, 2017

Religious experience & magic mushrooms

Representatives of the world's major religions--well, not ALL of the world's major religions--are being given...

July 17, 2017

Discrimination in footnotes

Two geographers have written an academic article arguing that scholars should not cite research by so...

July 14, 2017

The earth will soon be uninhabitable

Within a few decades, according to an article in New York Magazine, global warming will make...

July 11, 2017

Christian multi-universe theories

The scholastic theology of the Middle Ages was very much in thrall to the philosophy...