Sci/Tech Archives

This is what’s weird to me about the Internet age. Instead of attacking ideas, we attack people.

Are we using the powerful, disruptive technology at our own fingertips to encourage, to think critically and compassionately, to spread shalom and create a “meaningful society”?

Is being a good consumer ultimately impossible?

Could post-mortem tweets reshape how we remember the deceased?

We can safely call the infanticide arguments from Giubilini, Minerva, Tooley, and Singer what we’ve known them to be all along: immoral nonsense that needs to stop.

The Eich controversy is a firm reminder of the necessity for tough, expensive grace in our lives, relationships, and conversations, especially when it comes to such heated issues as gay marriage and LGBT rights.

In ‘Death Is Wrong,’ transhumanist author Gennady Stolyarov II asserts that human beings can and should pursue ways to eradicate death; but only trusting the adequacy of God’s provision can instill a hope for the death of death.

Wherever we are, we can touch the unique lives of the individuals at the center of the storm that is abortion.

Academic freedom — the freedom to propose, pursue, and research dangerous ideas — is not something to be feared.

The series premiere of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was beautifully shot and creatively written. But does it continue to perpetuate the warfare thesis of science versus religion?

On February 17th, 1600 A.D., Giordano Bruno, a Dominican priest, philosopher, and mathematician, was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition.

Even in the absence of scientific breakthroughs, even when the specter of failure is imminent — success or not — science is worth doing.

God made the universe out of nothing. He may have done it in six literal days. But if God did that, He did not use any natural processes that we have ever observed or can duplicate.

I’ve been disheartened by the judgments I’ve lorded over my children, even if only in my mind.

“A world of information at our fingertips seems to offer endless alternatives, an illusion ultimately rendered impossible by the obstinate strictures and constraints of reality.”

“It is essentially competitive predictive math, and it doesn’t even require that you watch actual games from week to week. But that, I think is the biggest problem with playing fantasy football: the detachment.”