What Is Soft Matter?
Philip Ball on Tom McLeish The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble. It’s an apt characterization, recognizing that
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Science & Technology
The Modern Mosaic of Science and Religion – by Donovan Schaefer
Donovan Schaefer on Peter Harrison’s The Territories of Science and Religion Are science and religion doomed to clash? Are they irreconcilable — a
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How to Be Human in a Machine World
Samuel Loncar on the future of humans in a world dominated by computers Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction.
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Religious Spacemen? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and (Extra)-Terrestrial Faith – By Gavin Merrifield
Gavin Merrifield on David Wilkinson’s Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is our blue planet Earth the only world inhabited by
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“From Despair to Hope”: Antiretroviral Therapy, Redemption, and Christianity in Africa – By Jessica Hardin
Jessica Hardin on Rijk van Dijk, et al. (eds), Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa In 2009, an estimated 2.1 million people with
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The Vibrant Religious Life of Silicon Valley, and Why It’s Killing the Economy
Samuel Loncar on Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future? He even looks like a prophet. Well, how a prophet might look like in
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Belief Is Not Dead: Science, Theology, and Culture in Graham Ward’s Unbelievable – By Sarah Lane
Sarah Lane on Graham Ward’s Unbelievable The topic of belief can seem an awkward guest in contemporary discussions of epistemology. Tacitly or openly
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When the Made Remakes the Maker: Theology and Technoculture – By Brian Brock
Brian Brock on Brent Waters’s Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture Brent Waters’s Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture: From Posthuman to Technoculture
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How Not to Criticize the (Evolutionary) Cognitive Science of Religion – By Jonathan Jong
Jonathan Jong on Fraser Watts and Léon Turner (eds.), Evolution, Religion, & Cognitive Science: Critical & Constructive Essays That human beings are incorrigibly religious is
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Can the Bible Survive Science? – By John Walton
John Walton on Mark Harris’s The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science In 2003, an international research group successfully mapped the human genome,
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