Religion and science

Metaxas: Atheism Is Dead

Eric Metaxas joins the podcast to discuss his book, Is Atheism Dead? Continue Reading »

7 Apr 2022

The Science of Adam

Theology seems to require a “first parent” of the human race. How does that square with recent findings?
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13 Dec 2021

Mytho-History in Genesis

by William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig defends his reading of Genesis against its critics. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2021

Doubts About William Lane Craig’s Creation Account

by Peter J. Leithart

It’s doubtful that Craig’s minimalist creation account can nourish the Evangelical imagination or sustain Christian orthodoxy. Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2021

Catholic “Beliefs” and the Abortion Debate

by George Weigel

The correct answer to the question of when human life begins is not a matter of faith; it is a matter of scientific fact. Continue Reading »

22 Sep 2021

The 400th anniversary of the death of Robert Bellarmine invites a look back at this fascinating figure of the Catholic Reformation, engaged as he was with issues newly relevant today: the relationship of faith and science and of ecclesial and temporal power. Continue Reading »

21 Sep 2021

Daniel Dennett Hunts the Snark

by David Bentley Hart

In the second section—or “fit”—of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, the Bellman lectures the crew of his ship on the peculiar traits of the creature they have just crossed an ocean to find. There are, he tells his men, “five unmistakable marks” by which genuine Snarks . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2007

Cosmic Questions

by John Farrell

Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of his new book, Dreams of a Final Theory, Steven Weinberg writes, “It would be wonderful to find in the laws of nature a plan prepared by a concerned creator in which human beings played . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1994

Looking at Islam After Kipling and Hesse

by Richard John Neuhaus

Books on Islam, we are told, are enjoying brisk sales. For reasons related to the imperialist past of those countries, intellectuals in England and France have generally paid more attention to Islam than have Americans. Apart from academic specialists, American interest in Islam has been limited . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991

The Advent of Literary Science

by John P. Sisk

It is now more than thirty years since C. P. Snow’s Cambridge Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution,” popularized the notion of a dangerous rift between the literary and scientific world views. Snow put the blame on the pessimistic, anti-social, and politically silly . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991