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Spencer Klavan is a classicist who holds a ­doctorate in ancient Greek literature from Oxford University. Not the most obvious candidate, I thought, to write a book about science and faith that deals...

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by robert m. sapolsky penguin, 528 pages, $35 Many people have been amazed by the capabilities of ChatGPT and the rapid...

The War That Never Was: Evolution and Christian Theologyby kenneth w. kemp cascade, 234 pages, $28 Conventional wisdom has it that science and religion have perennially been at war....

Why Only Us: Language and Evolutionby robert c. berwick and noam chomskymit press, 224 pages, $22.95 Perhaps the most sensitive point of contact between religion and science is the...

God’s Planet by owen gingerich harvard, 192 pages, $19.95 According to a famous formulation of Stephen Jay Gould, science and religion constitute “non-overlapping magisteria” or “NOMA.” What he meant...

I think Matt Franck is being too hard on Charles Krauthammer on the ensoulment point. From a (Catholic) theological point of view, to say that a being is a “person”...

Scientists are beginning to get very worried—-that an idea proposed by me and three collaborators in 1997 may turn out to be right. If it is right, then (a)...

From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether...

Christians who accept Darwinian evolution are, it is sometimes said, trying to have it both ways. If evolution is driven by random mutations, we cannot be part of a...

What does it mean? Not a whole lot. There is now a lot of soul-searching about the direction of the Republican Party and much doubting of its future viability...

Fr. Leonard Klein, who is well known to the readers of First Things , is pastor of a parish in my own state of Delaware. Yesterday he gave a...

Since the time of Newton, science has advanced by a strategy rightly called “reductionism.” This method, which explains things by analyzing them into smaller and simpler parts, has yielded...

Anyone interested in the latest pronouncements of Stephen Hawking on God should heed the observations of Martin Rees (now Lord Rees), one of the world’s leading astrophysicists, the Astronomer...

Has physics done away with God? A newly release book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow says, “Yes.” What is a Jewish or Christian believer to make of this?...

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum’s moral analysis in ” Blood for Blood ” and ” They Did It ” is meant to apply...