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 ...

“Two blokes walk into a pub and say they’ve discovered the secret of life. Only on February 28, 1953, they weren’t joking.” The two blokes? James Watson and Francis Crick. The secret of life? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early in the Cold War era, "social sciences were criticized for not being really scientific—for being ideological and political in ways that may seem to have been disguised as science," says Mark ...

Pregnant Ten-Year-Old Girls Cannot Be a Political Talking Point It’s Time for a Reset in U.S.-Israel Relations AI’s Great Big ‘Dumbening’ Effect Xi’s Invitation to American Students Comes with ...