Category: Culture
Doublethink: Censor of the Year Calls for Free Speech
Jerry Coyne, who punched down, canceled Eric Hedin, and never apologized, deplores what he calls the “denial-of-free-speech movement.”
Listen, or Watch: West and McLean on Science, C. S. Lewis’s Journey, and More
Actor Max McLean points out an insight from Lewis on the role of apologetic and other arguments in maintaining faith.
The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration
The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth.
Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3
The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe.
Melissa Cain Travis: Explaining the Uncanny “Cosmic Resonance” of Mathematics
Travis considers the history of Western thinking from Pythagoras and the pre-Socratic philosophers to Philo of Alexandria and onward.