This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. I have an essay in Nature this week on how ...

In an earlier Patheos column, I recommended that the public theologian construct a worldview that includes a theology of nature. And by ‘nature’ I meant the world as seen through microscopes and ...

The Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or “MIT,” the small, obscurantist Bible college where Ian Hutchinson teaches. (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph) I continue here ...

Well-known online atheist Bob Seidensticker once wrote that “science is the only discipline that tells us new things about reality.” I replied: “Like many atheists, he takes the epistemologically ...

In this episode, Dr. Stacy Trasancos will discuss the difference between science and what some have dubbed “scientism,” and why it even matters. Dr. Trasancos brings with her discussions advanced ...

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It’s easy to judge someone else’s worldview, but it’s much harder to recognise that we even have a worldview. We appreciate how pagan societies might see spirits in nature, or how monotheists see God ...

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This week, a bit of news that escaped the notice of many was a dust-up between Lila Rose and Dr. Phil. The topic? The definition of science and the definition of life. The exchange went something like ...

No matter what face you put on it, science is a powerful tool. Here, engineer Marcus Hold works on a nearly completed RoboThespian. Marvels of modern science, these fully interactive and multilingual ...