Stephen M. Barr, a member of First Things’ advisory council is professor of physics at the University of Delaware.

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and a member of First Things’ advisory council.  

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student’s Guide to Natural Sci-ence.

Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D’Souza Regnery, 256 pages, $27.95 While much apologetic effort has been spent arguing for the existence of God, relatively little has been spent defending the reasonableness of belief in an afterlife and the resurr

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student’s Guide to Natural Science.

Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist at the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware and the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student’s Guide to Natural ­Science.

Stephen M. Barr, a member of the editorial advisory board of First Things, is professor of physics at the Bartol Research Institute.

Stephen M. Barr • Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: This is one of those books which have the potential to reverse a verdict of history. The verdict in this case is one of the most damaging to the credibility of relig

Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist at the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware and the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student's Guide to Natural Science.

Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist at the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware and the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student's Guide to Natural Science.

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student’s Guide to Natural Science.

Stephen M. Barr, a member of the editorial advisory board of First Things, is professor of physics at the Bartol Research Institute.

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Stephen M. Barr’s “Fearful Symmetries,” a meditation on sciences’ search for the elegant and elusive simplicity of the universe, and the scientific failure of reductionism. (You will have seen his Much Ado About “Nothing”, posted on “First Thoughts” last week.

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student’s Guide to Natural Science.

Stephen M. Barr reviews Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature, finding: there was a time when people worried whether God existed. Now, strangely enough, they are beginning to worry whether they exist—

Stephen M. Barr, a member of the editorial advisory board of First Things, is professor of physics at the Bartol Research Institute.

Stephen M. Barr adds a scientist’s stern reading of the theological essays on science from Wolfhart Pannenberg, one of the major theologians of our time. Then, in “Education & Soulcraft,” Gilbert Meilaender gives his own stern reading of the new book fro

Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist at the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware and the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student's Guide to Natural Science. References “The anthropic principle and th