Review of Clayton’s “God and Contemporary Science”
Philip Clayton seeks ways to resolve the apparent conflict experienced when reading scripture and studying natural history. How can God act in the world without violating the laws of science?
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The Concealed God of Science
If God is everywhere, then why is God so hard to perceive? One could imagine a God more like a Chairman Mao or a Comrade Stalin with photographs of himself hung everywhere in nature and everywhere the secret police to enforce our acquiescence.
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Gaps in Scientific & Religious Education
Presently, way too much of the science and religion discussion could be summed up in the “X-Files” slogan, “Trust No One.” I’d much prefer to move ahead in accordance with the other slogan: “The Truth Is Out There.”
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The Great Story Beads Project – A Tool for Teaching and Devotions
We have only begun to discuss this idea with religious education and secular school teachers, but all have been excited by the prospect of turning this into student projects—for helping children learn and experience history, science, and religion.
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An Interview With Sherrilyn Roush
Sherrilyn Roush, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rice University, takes on the philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics. She is extraordinarily intelligent on cosmology. Physicists, open the golden doors, usher her in.
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Pandemonium Tremendum
Excerpts from “Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God”
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Confessions of a Trinitarian Evolutionist
Thomas Jay Oord interviews German Lutheran theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg.
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Christian Suburban Housewife Scientist
Several recent thought-provoking papers from the Future Visions group have inspired me to offer some thoughts from a "female perspective". As an observational astronomer and a Christian, I found myself in consonance with many views expressed in Bernard Haisch’s contribution "Freeing the Scientific Imagination from Fundamentalist Scientism" (although I disagree that strident debunking is exclusively…
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Review of David F. Noble’s “The Religion of Technology”
Having demonstrated that the ambiguous modern scientific and technological enterprise has its origin in something as ignoble as religion, David Noble apparently expects us to join with him in disowning it.