If God died in the 1960’s, then someone forgot to tell the English publishing industry. Books about God have been surprising bestsellers for the past decade. Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion which has sold over a million has been joined in the best seller lists by Christopher Hitchin’s God Is Not Great, Sam Harris’s Letter to a Christian Nation, A.A. Grayling’s Against All Gods, and a host of other…
Anne Gauger What makes us human? Some would say it’s our genes. I don’t want to argue the case that we are more than our genes, though we are. I simply want to point out that interesting new research indicates we have a number of new genes — genes that are specifically human — in our genome. These new genes are few in number, some would say, but there is a current bias in genome annotation against…
From: "God in the Dock" — C. S. Lewis
A Short Course on the Double Helix Each year in my introductory science course at Trinity College of Florida, I take one class session to allow my students to experience a simplified “candy-confection” type of DNA modeling. We use fairly simple edible ingredients for this exercise: large marshmallows, miniature size marshmallows, and “Spice Gum Drops.” The latter come in a bag containing several…
"Redemption Explained" By Dr. Tom Woodward, Executive Director of the C. S. Lewis Society It took place one night in December, 1968, as snow began to swirl around the majestic gothic building known as the Princeton University Chapel (pictured at left). I was a freshman (that’s my frosh pic below), and I was on a mission, striding down the lane that led to the chapel from my frosh dorm, Witherspoon…
Johnson's Berkeley Faculty Symposium
Memo of Recollections
“Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice.” Richard Dawkins recently tweeted the above in response to a woman who wondered what she should do about her unborn child with Down syndrome. Of course that is an obscene statement and people all over the world responded. Here is how he summarized those arguments: I am being bombarded with pictures…
Prof. Thomas Nagel has published an important essay entitled, "Public Education and Intelligent Design", in the Wiley InterScience Journal Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 36, issue 2, on-line at < http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118493933/home> His paper is a significant because it encourages all intelligent, educated, informed individuals to consider that intelligent design may be a…
Man or Rabbit? By C. S. Lewis
Anne Gauger July 30, 2013 As readers will know who have followed the exchange between Martin Poenie, Doug Axe, and Jonathan M., most recently here but originating in critical comments by Dr. Poenie about Stephen Meyer’s argument Darwin’s Doubt, we have a dispute going on between scientists over how to interpret experiments about proteins. The dispute has to do with whether or not neo-Darwinian evolution,…
