October 2019
Craig’s List: What Science Fails to Explain
Shouldn’t all reliable knowledge come from scientific investigation? More to the point, is there anything science can’t explain?
Philip LaPorte | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2019
Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: Interview with MIT Professor Ian Hutchinson
"In fact, a good case can be made that Christian theology, or Judeo-Christian understanding of creation coming from the Bible, was the very fertile philosophical and theological environment in which science found its birth."
Allen Lai | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2019August 2019
July 2019
December 2018
A Theology of Quantum Mechanics
With a scientific mindset, it can be difficult to rationalize spiritual interfaces with physical reality. By the end of this article, we should have at least a framework of reason in which to approach these questions.
Ronald Davis III | MIT et Spiritus | Fall 2018
Positivism and the Burden of Proof
To distinguish scientific from non-scientific questions, positivists used the verifiability principle, on which a question could be considered scientific if and only if it could be verified empirically.
Will Vickery | The UT Austin Texas Trinitas | Fall 2018
Prayer and the Brain: A Meta-Analysis of Neurological Activity During Christian Prayer
This review aims to converge the neurological and theological perspectives instead of using one to support or reject the other and vice versa.
Julie Cho | Claremont hearhere | Fall 2018September 2018
August 2018
An Interview with Jonathan Moo
"I think the reason Christians care for creation can be summarized by loving God and loving our neighbor, and in the process discovering who we were created to be."
Siobhan McDonough | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017
Scientias Religionis
In this article I hope to shed some light on those areas in which behavioral biology actually has a lot to say about the religious experience.
Hailey Reneau | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017May 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
The Body of Christ: Notes from an Anatomist
However, if working with deceased bodies provides any insight, I can say this: understanding the water-sacks we inhabit falls far short of knowing the full complexity of personhood.
Aldis Petriceks | Stanford Vox Clara | Winter 2018
Living in a Secular Age
In the end, secularity is a broadening of people’s experiences with where they locate meaning. From this lens, secularity doesn’t look so much like a good or bad thing, but more as an opportunity.
Noah Black | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017
The Numinous and the Natural: Christianity and Environmentalism
The Tragedy of the Commons shows us that the destruction of the environment is an issue regarding not only how people relate to one another, but also how we relate to nature.
Jeffrey Poomkudy | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2017November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
Boundaries
We invite you to look for the beauty that boundaries can create and to heal the wounds cut by divisive boundaries.
Laura Clark | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016
Insights from Professor Chuck Huff
"Do you have any particular examples from your classes where people have really thought through or wrestled with the issues of religion and science?"
Avodah Editorial Staff | St Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015June 2017
The Autonomous Veneer of Scientific Innovation
Research has pushed the bounds of knowledge and understanding to great lengths, addressing some of the most complex issues in physics, engineering, and medicine, but for what purpose?
Chris Korenczuk | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Fall 2016
The Climate Change Distraction
For me to simply say that the climate is changing does not address the greater issue. The problem is that people are not motivated to care for the environment.
Brad Gordon | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Fall 2016May 2017
April 2017
An Interview with Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan
"Dealing with uncertain environmental problems, where we only see part of the system, has helped me appreciate what we do in a faith sense."
Gabrielle Moss | The Johns Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016
Petitionary Prayer: Why it Matters
Why is petitionary prayer necessary? And how are we, if at all, to determine its efficacy?
Jiaying Lim | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2016March 2017
February 2017
December 2016
4 Take-Aways from the Veritas Forum: Does Science Point to Atheism?
Both panelists agreed on the constant thirst for truth present in both science and religion, and the “obvious tension” in their differences.
Monica Perez | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015
A Defense of Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument from Contingency
Cosmological arguments attempt to demonstrate the existence of a deity based on the mere existence of the universe.
Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016October 2016
August 2016
The Trinity of Physics, Christianity, and Life
I have come to think that science and religion are complementary pictures of truth, answering the questions of ‘how?’ and ‘why?’
Vitaly Andreev | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016
Why Truth Matters: A Christian’s Role in the Pursuit of Knowledge
With these (mostly) postmodern developments, one would think that discerning the truth is a uniquely postmodern conundrum.
Jennifer Schmitt | UMinnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016July 2016
June 2016
An Interview with Robert Horner: Science and Religion
"So would you say that science and religion, for you personally, have been two separate lives?"
Sam Paek | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016
The Dilemma of Faith in a Secular Age
Likewise, ours is an age in which believers and non-believers alike struggle with doubt about whether our beliefs are indeed the right ones.
Micaela Walker | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016
Genetically Modified Crops and a Christian Worldview
Modern food production has come a long way since the times recorded in Genesis, but the issues farmers face today are the same.
Megan Stevens | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016May 2016
Quasars, Pulsars, Black Holes, and God
In addition to the idea of causality, the seemingly inexplicable order and structure of the universe puzzled me.
Isaac Bautista | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015
For the Good of All Creation: A Christian Ecological Ethic
Ecological crisis, whether as dramatic as some predict or not, means we must reconsider the beliefs implicit in a system that exploits humans, creatures, and natural resources.
Nicole Newell | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015March 2016
Faith and Learning
Does Christianity pose a challenge to intellectual inquiry?
Trevor Davis | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015
The Implications of Naturalism and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness
An interview with Dr. Michael Rea, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, who specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.
The Dartmouth Apologia Staff | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015February 2016
January 2016
September 2015
How Christians Navigate College and Career
I talked with six Christian seniors at Harvard, each with varying concentrations and potential career paths, to understand how Christians at Harvard think about their faith, academics, and future careers.
Brooke Dickens | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015
The Religious Beliefs of Scientists
At first glance, there seems to be no doubt that scientists as a whole affiliate less with religion than the general public.
Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015
To Become the One Who is Near to Others
Beneficent action does not entail benevolent action, does not entail that we learn to genuinely love the good of others for their sake,
Michael Spezio | The Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015July 2015
This Fine-Tuned Universe
The fact that our universe is life-permitting doesn’t give us evidence for the Many Universe Hypothesis. It does, however, give us evidence for a fine-tuning God.
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015 blog
Review of The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
Science and religion may never ever get back together in the same way, but Dolnick reminds us that in the not-so-distant past, they were once brothers.
Jordan Monge | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015 blog
