The Church is Ahead of the Mathematicians on Ecumenical Dialogue
A Stanford School of Engineering research team has developed a new mathematical model for how society becomes polarized, published in the March online edition Proceedings of the National Academy of...
View ArticleThe Self-Defeating Argument About Intelligence
Alexander Wissner-Gross, a physicist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cameron Freer, a mathematician at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, have developed an...
View ArticleScientists Study the Clinging “Belief in Science”
I have often wondered about my desire for science when I wasn’t religious, and I think it was an un-admitted dissatisfaction with relativism. When I had no faith in anything beyond myself, sure, it was...
View ArticleDo “Devout Catholics” Have Better Sex?
There’s an article recently from U.S. News that bears the eye-catching title, “Devout Catholics Have Better Sex, Study Says“. Be careful about laying this down as a challenge to non-Catholics to...
View ArticleO Ye Ice and Snow, Bless the Lord
As Christians have long known, the Bible says that the universe is ordered by the rational and loving Creator and that this order is evidence of God’s faithfulness. An antagonist may point out that the...
View ArticleIs Free Will Scientifically Dead?
Brian Greene, an American theoretical physicist at Colombia University and possibly the most well-known string theorist, was recently quoted by LiveScience, “I think free will bit the dust long before...
View ArticleLet There Be Ice Cream In Cones: On Determinism and Miracles
Compliments of Elizabeth Pack Photography Last week I wrote that determinism is not a new idea for physicists, and I wrote that Christian apologists do not accept the deterministic conclusion that...
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