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Can science tell us how we should live or why we should be good and not evil? Paul Nedelisky joins Matt, Derek, and Alastair to explore these questions and discuss
Matthew LoftusSciencehealthmedicine
"It's a chemical imbalance." Often spoken, this leads us to two solutions: prayer and prozac. Should it be that way?
Matthew Lee AndersonScience
Criticizing organized religion is easy to do. In fact, it is a favored pastime for many evangelical and post-evangelical Christians who can only see institutionalized religion as "dead.
Keith E. BuhlerScience
In a recent comment, the formidable Mr. Falk said, "The noteworthy thing about the universe is that everything appears to be explainable by immutable laws. As Einstein said, '
Matthew Lee AndersonScience
Noah Millman, in commenting upon the Derbyshire dust-up, writes: I continue to believe that both sides of the Darwin vs. Christianity battle are missing the most telling point. We
Matthew Lee AndersonScience
When modern science approaches the world, it asks two questions of it: what is the nature and arrangement of the matter under consideration, and how did that arrangement come to
Matthew Lee AndersonScience
While my brother and Wesley Smith discuss this brief analysis of the importance to human exceptionalism by Leon Kass at his place, this provocatively titled piece of news has started
Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophyScience
Jesus was no stranger to controversial or confusing claims: "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on the earth. I did not bring come to bring
Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophyScience
Phillip Johnson explicates the state of the intelligent design movement in biology on the Discovery Institute website. It's worth reading. From the end: The goal of the Intelligent
Matthew Lee AndersonPro-LifeScience
In late January, I wrote this essay for a Pro-Life symposium that it seems never materialized. In it, I included this claim: The pro-life position is fundamentally about
Keith E. BuhlerPoetryScience
This question has puzzled theists for millenia, and its atheistic equivalent, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has puzzled everyone else for equally as long. Augustine says,
Matthew Lee AndersonScienceEpistemology
This story seems particularly ironic in light of the Pope's speech in Germany yesterday. While the numbers are tendentious, popular perception in America is that we are recruiting