On my Hinduism
My writing here might suggest I care about religion in the context of science, or evolution in relation to creationism. But those interests came much later. For...
Tag: Religion
Jesus and the anti-vaccination movement
Via Elizabeth Breunig’s Twitter feed, I came across this fascinating profile of Dr. Paul Offit, who changed his opinion about Christianity and religion af...
Let’s teach doubt and skepticism about science
Lawrence Krauss wants schools to cultivate doubt: Doubt about one’s most cherished beliefs is, of course, central to science: the physicist Richard Feynman stre...
Ancient cosmology
When I can’t think of anything to write I do one of two things: talk about Jamaican food or link to something from BioLogos. Today I take the latter route...
The science/faith gridlock
Some blog-days ago I highlighted BioLogos’s interview with Bill Nye. Brad Kramer offers some final thoughts: I don’t think Nye is intentionally ignorant, ...
Bill Nye on science and religion
BioLogos had a fascinating interview with Bill Nye. I was surprised to read Nye’s thoughts on the harmony between science and faith: People get a lot out ...
Quote for the day
Dan Sarewitz in ‘Lies We Must Live With’: As is so often the case when we frame a problem as bimodal, however, we get the problem itself wrong. The ...
Creationists and climate change
Elizabeth Stoker Breunig draws a connection between creationists and climate change: A more suggestive statistic comes from 2011 polling data, which found that ...
Intelligent Design 2.0
Damon Linker questions a recent attempt to prove the existence of God using science: The timing was perfect. Published on Christmas Day, Eric Metaxas Wall Stree...
Spreading the gospel of evolution
Adam Laats writes a fascinating sentence in his review of Adam Shapiro’s book on the Scopes Trial: Textbook authors, Shapiro writes, tended to work collab...