Science

You are probably familiar with the concept that the universe is "fine-tuned" for life, that...

A scientist has devised a mathematical formula for calculating when nations and civilizations fall apart. ...

Elon Musk's company Neuralink hopes to implant computer connections into the human brain. Thus, human...

The baffling questions about the COVID-19 virus--why it affects people differently, contradictory findings about anti-bodies,...

Science, the realm that purports to be totally objective, must now conform to the dictates...

Modernists assumed that science will answer all questions, even as it "disenchants" the physical world....

Does singing in church risk spreading the coronavirus by projecting respiratory particles in the air?...

We Lutherans consider every Christian to be a "saint," though at the same time a...

On March 31, the president and his coronavirus task force warned us to brace ourselves...

Some people are over-reacting to fears of the coronavirus epidemic, and some are under-reacting. Here...

A mathematician cites scientific data showing that classical design elements--such as symmetry, proportion, harmony, and...

Science and the arts have worked together to recreate what music would have sounded like...

We often note how human beings "play God" and, following the Serpent's temptation (Gen. 3:5),...

As scholars have been demonstrating, Christianity has played a major role in the rise of...

Medical science is learning more and more about pregnancy and fetal development.  We now know...

We are the sum of our experiences throughout our lives, and our memories continue to...

David Gelertner--a mathematician, an important computer scientist, a full professor at Yale--has announced that he...

Japanese scientists have announced plans to generate embryos that are hybrids of human beings and...

The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth long venerated as the burial shroud of...

Postmodernists believe that there is no objective truth, that all truths are "constructions."  Add in...

We Christians often speak of non-believers as "lost."  That is no metaphor today.  For all...

We used to think that science is reductionistic, that once we have a "scientific" explanation...

Researchers have been combining human DNA with that of mice.  The goal of generating these...

I enjoy it when conventional wisdom gets turned upside down.  A good example appeared in...

I came across this interesting piece in Touchstone from a couple of years ago.  It's by software...

According to the scientific method, experimental results need to be replicable.  That is, for a...

The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and...

We finally watched Avengers:  Infinity War.  The super villain in that story is Thanos, who has...

Scientists have discovered a new organ in the body.  In fact, it is the largest...

Leonardo da Vinci was not only a great artist.  He was also a great scientist--and...