On religion, science, and The Breakfast Club
Hellraiser: The Breakfast Club‘s John Bender, played by Jud Nelson Note: This is a reworked version of a post published back in 2011. If all goes well, this version will be showing up at Huffpost later this week. A few posts ago I discussed the Bronze Age Goat Herder Conceit. This is the idea, held [...]
Koan: science and theology
Pia Stern, The Improbable Duality of Being, 2012. Used with permission of the artist Twice in my life I’ve had the experience of learning something I already knew. But that’s not quite right, of course. What I mean is, twice I’ve encountered subjects that were truly new but felt old. In both cases I had [...]
Too simple to be wrong: the Bronze Age Goat Herder Conceit
My favorite goat herder: the constellation Auriga, copyright Sergey Mikhaylov. Auriga is usually called the Charioteer, but he’s almost always pictured as a goatherd on celestial maps. For those of us at mid-northern latitudes, he’s high overhead for most of these long winter nights. Image source: Bigstock Note: This is a reworked version of a [...]
Today at HuffPost: Intelligent Design is dead
I’ve a new piece up today at the Huffington Post. It is the reworking of an essay I wrote a few years ago about Johannes Kepler and Intelligent Design. Here’s a teaser: Kepler reminds us that religious people do not need to shrink from science and its naturalistic methods, because they more than others have [...]
My favorite funny R&S post of 2011
So many good things have been written this year about the sometimes-contentious, sometimes-mind-expanding, sometimes-hopeful relationship between science & religion. But there’s humor too, and the best funny thing I saw all year may be this strip. I found it at James McGrath’s Patheos blog, Exploring Our Matrix, but it has been featured by PZ Myers and [...]
War is over: top ten R&S peacemakers of 2011
The billboard came before the song. This NYC photograph is from December 1969; “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” was released two years later. Image source: The Rock File I’ve a new article up at Religion Dispatches. Here’s the lede: This year has marked, I believe, the beginning of the end of the war between science [...]
Polkinghorne gets it right
The Rev. Dr. Sir John Polkinghorne has some good things to say about science & religion. He also has more titles than you. Image source: University of St. Andrews Last week Biologos released a short video called John Polkinghorne in a Nutshell. In it, our protagonist says something with utter clarity that I’ve been trying [...]
