Category: Science
Understanding Memories: Lovely Metaphors Belong in Songs, Not Science
I’m reminded of a phrase from one of my favorite songwriters, Paul Simon, in “The Boxer”: “I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles.”
In Bioethics, Infanticide Is Now “Debatable”
The late Richard John Neuhaus famously wrote this of bioethicists.
My Top Five Science and Faith Christmas Gifts for 2015
Here are five resources on science and faith you might want to include in your gift-giving this month.
Newly Discovered Convergent Genetic Evolution Between Bird and Human Vocalization Poses a Severe Challenge to Common Ancestry
Everyone is familiar with the striking ability of certain birds (such as parrots) to vocalize speech, much as humans do.
Thinking Differently About Biology
Sentences that convey different ideas may have similar structures, but when we write a sentence we start with the idea, not the sentence structure.