Religion Dispatches
Creation is a heavy word these days. So, when it showed up in the title of one of this summer’s hottest science papers, it drew me up short.
The word itself comes from the Latin for ‘bringing forth into being’, which already sounds pretty deep. But then it also has the…
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When David Klinghoffer of the Discovery Institute called me out last week on a recent RD post, I decided to take the opportunity to review the history of the conservative think tank’s role in promoting the inclusion of intelligent design theory in the American science curriculum.
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The department of physics in the University of Oxford is a hodgepodge of buildings, old and new. In a warren of rooms, its scientists pursue interests from quantum computing to theoretical cosmology. The diversity says much. As a tree of knowledge, modern physics has branches that shoot off in…
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Much of Steve Fuller’s new book is just a strong way of saying what is entirely uncontroversial among historians of science, even if easily forgotten by most everyone else.
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A new four-volume work from the Vatical Library suggests that the concerns of the papacy in the early modern period were focused almost entirely on the new threat posed by the Protestants. If some scientists, especially the astronomers, got caught in the cross-fire, then this was only because they were perceived to be Protestant-style “free thinkers.”
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With reburial and rehab of Copernicus the Pope hopes to flex his modernist muscles.
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The other day, Terry Sanderson—president of the United Kingdom’s National Secular Society—published a short, scathing indictment of theology in The Guardian, a piece titled “
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For two decades The Insane Clown Posse, a hip-hop group from Detroit, has cultivated an underground network of dedicated fans. The Posse, usually abbreviated to just “ICP,” consists of Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J. Their musical stylings are known as “horrorcore” because…
Read MoreState teachers’ union gives money to PAC behind political attack ad.
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A new book by Krista Tippett, host of NPR’s “Speaking of Faith,” furthers the heartfelt intervention in the culture wars that her show represents.
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