Science and Religion

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Uncommon Knowledge with David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and James Orr
Stephen C. Meyer, David Berlinski and Peter Robinson
July 17, 2024
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design

The Magician’s Twin, with David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and James Orr

Stephen C. Meyer, David Berlinski and Peter Robinson
July 17, 2024
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
In this Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski, intelligent design advocate Stephen Meyer, and Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge University, James Orr explore the parallels between scientific and magical endeavors, referencing C. S. Lewis's notion that both were born from the same impulse, with one thriving and the other fading. Read More ›
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Melissa Cain Travis and Andrew McDiarmid
April 1, 2024

Online Course Explores History of Science and Christianity

Melissa Cain Travis and Andrew McDiarmid
April 1, 2024
Did Christianity help or hinder the rise of science? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Dr. Melissa Cain Travis about her latest online course Science & Christianity: An Historical Exploration. The live 6-week course offered this spring gives a small cohort of students the opportunity to dive into the historical relationship between science and Christianity and the skill to address the distorted historical narratives that persist in the contemporary conversation. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
March 30, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life

Are Evangelicals “Crippling” Our Coronavirus Response?

Michael Egnor
March 30, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
Evangelicals didn’t cause thus plague, and we desperately need the courage and wisdom that evangelicals have always brought to bear against pandemics. They deserve better than this slander. We would be wise to look closely at the real ideological and scientific “consensus” — a wholly secular consensus — that inflicted this misery on humanity. Read More ›
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Portrait of Baruch de Spinoza
Portrait of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), ca. 1665 via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Newton Keas
March 23, 2020
Intelligent Design

Baruch Spinoza Was No Science Hero

Michael Newton Keas
March 23, 2020
Intelligent Design
The third season of Cosmos has released four episodes so far, with more to come this Monday, on Fox and the National Geographic channel. The most consequential historical error to correct as yet concerns the treatment of Spinoza. Read More ›
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Michael Newton Keas
March 16, 2020
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

Are Christianity and Science Perpetually at War with Each Other

Michael Newton Keas
March 16, 2020
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

Historian of science Michael Keas explores the relationship between science and Christianity, discussing three big myths about the history of science and Christianity. Dr. Keas is author of Unbelievable: 7 Myths about the History and Future of Science and Religion. “There is a false idea circulating out there that science grows only when guided by godless thinking.” On the contrary, Read More ›