Oct
18
My Book on Intelligent Design
My book on intelligent design has been completed and will be published in 2025 by NYU Press.
11 min read
Religion and science
On the complicated and misunderstood interaction of religion and science throughout history.
Apr
02
The Day(s) the Earth Stood Still
The 2008 version of The Day the Earth Stood Still is a flawed but still worthwhile movie, addressing technology and humanity, but also the nature of remakes.
9 min read
Nov
13
Reading C.S. Lewis's Academic Books #1: The Discarded Image
A review of C.S. Lewis's The Discarded Image, his last book and a tour de force on medieval literature, psychology, and philosophy of science.
13 min read
Sep
17
Remembering Ronald Numbers (1942-2023), Historian of Science
The late historian Ronald Numbers was a great exemple of intellectual seriousness and deep compassion. We can all learn from him.
11 min read
Aug
19
Has Science Fiction Ever Been Modern?
How modern is sci-fi, anway? Its Golden Age featured narratives of ascent and decline, the binary of Foundation or A Canticle for Leibowitz. But modernity is more complicated than either progress or regress.
15 min read
Jun
11
To Serve Man: The Relationship of Humanity to Technology
An explanation for this site. We can neither embrace technology uncritically, nor renounce it totally.
18 min read