Science and Faith
If you don’t think there is a God and religion is totally irrelevant to the course of your daily life, then you may well be somebody who practices Apatheism. That is, you don’t believe in God, but it’s not something you spend much time thinking about, either. Mary Jo Sharp today is an Assistant Professor…
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Regular readers of HillFaith will recall this post from January 24, “A Fish Story That Points to God.” Based on an absolutely amazing video produced by the John 10:10 Project, the post told the story of how the five species of the Pacific Salmon have a driving urge to return to the place where they…
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Making predictions can leave you looking like a total dummy. Trust me, I learned this lesson the hard way after predicting in print on the Friday before the 2012 presidential election that Mitt Romney would defeat then-President Barack Obama by three percentage points on the following Tuesday. That said, lots of people continue to make…
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By Jay Richards The Sun and the Moon are not just the same shape, but the same apparent size in the sky. It’s this happy arrangement that produces total solar eclipses as seen from the earth’s surface. Americans got a chance to view such an eclipse on April 8 — an event we won’t see again…
Read MoreYou may well have never heard of Dr. Robert Marks, author of “Non-Computable You: What You Do that Artificial Intelligence Never Will (2022).” But if you are interested, fascinated or terrified by AI, you are in for a treat today. Marks is the Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University and one…
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Hundreds of millions of people here in the United States, as well as Mexico and Canada, will be able on Monday, April 8, to witness a total solar eclipse of the Sun beginning at 2:05 pm and ending two and a half hours later at 4:28 pm. At the height of the event, the Moon…
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Spring is my favorite season, as it is for millions of others. For me, the return of the Azaleas to blooming, the lush green of the yards and the new warmth in the air signal that the cold is gone of winter is over and new possibilities are everywhere. Spring also reminds me of what…
Read MoreActually, no, it’s not. Here’s how we know this:
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There has been a raft of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) reported in recent decades and those reports have generated a growing body of clinical analyses seeking to account for them that directly challenge the idea that consciousness is created by our brains. It’s not just from NDEs, however, from which significant evidence that consciousness does not…
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You’ve no doubt heard of Quantum Mechanics (QM), but did you know there is a growing field of scientific inquiry that applies QM to biology? Naturally, it is otherwise known as Quantum Biology (QB) and it appears to explain a lot that traditional biology can’t. Things like how birds that migrate back and forth over…
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