First Things RSS Feed - Stephen M. Barr https://www.firstthings.com/author/stephen-m-barr en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:20 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/stephen-m-barr 60 Feel Free https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/08/feel-free https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/08/feel-free Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Determined:
A Science of Life without Free Will
by robert m. sapolsky
 penguin, 528 pages, $35

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]]> On the Origins of Specious Myths https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/08/on-the-origins-of-specious-myths https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/08/on-the-origins-of-specious-myths Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400 The War That Never Was:
Evolution and Christian Theology
by kenneth w. kemp
cascade, 234 pages, $28

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]]> First Words https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/04/first-words https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/04/first-words Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0400 Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
 by robert c. berwick and noam chomsky
 mit press, 224 pages, $22.95

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]]> A New Era https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/a-new-era https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/a-new-era Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0400 God’s Planet
by owen gingerich
harvard, 192 pages, $19.95

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]]> About Ensoulment https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/02/about-ensoulment https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/02/about-ensoulment Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:20:00 -0500 I think Matt Franck is being too  hard on Charles Krauthammer on the ensoulment point.

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]]> The Large Hadron Collider, the Multiverse, and Me (and my friends) https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/06/the-large-hadron-collider-the-multiverse-and-me-and-my-friends https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/06/the-large-hadron-collider-the-multiverse-and-me-and-my-friends Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:13:13 -0400

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]]> Man the Mystery https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/01/man-the-mystery https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/01/man-the-mystery Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution
by Brendan Purcell
New City Press, 370 pages, $34.95

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]]> Chance, by Design https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/12/chance-by-design https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/12/chance-by-design Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Christians who accept Darwinian evolution are, it is sometimes said, trying to have it both ways. If evolution is driven by random mutations, we cannot be part of a divine plan. How, the critics ask, can we possibly exist by chance and by design, by accident and by intention?

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]]> Stop Over-Interpreting the Election https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/11/stop-over-interpreting-the-election https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/11/stop-over-interpreting-the-election Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:30:11 -0500

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]]> Fr. Klein on Forgiveness, Justice, Terrorism, and War https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/09/fr-klein-on-forgiveness-justice-terrorism-and-war https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/09/fr-klein-on-forgiveness-justice-terrorism-and-war Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:59:37 -0400

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