Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2167: Proof
Posted on · Episode: 2167 Proof and Belief: Are they related? Today, proof and belief.
Tag: religion
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2145: Extreme Time
Posted on · Episode: 2145 The far fringes of time — fringes beyond our comprehension. Today, extreme time.
The Death Penalty
Supreme Court conservatives are skeptical on spiritual advisers in death chamber
Posted on · The subject has, at times, divided the court's conservative majority and it has also at times embarrassed the court, as minority religious advisers have sometimes been excluded from the chamber.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2035: The Gunpowder Plot
Posted on · Episode: 2035 The Gunpowder Plot: Terrorism little-changed in four hundred years. Today, historian Cathy Patterson asks us to “Remember, remember, the fifth of November.”
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2132: Absolutism
Posted on · Episode: 2132 Absolutism: Biblical distortion and the death of scientific literacy. Today, evolution and education.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2125: Religious Cartoons
Posted on · Episode: 2125 Religious cartoons: a window into the mechanics of media persuasion. Today, a window into the mechanics of media persuasion.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2049: The deBrys and the Merians
Posted on · Episode: 2049 The deBrys and the Merians: Two views of the New World. Today, the New World, both real and Imagined.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2041: James B. Emerson
Posted on · Episode: 2041 James B. Emerson: iconoclastic 19th-C turbine developer. Today, an iconoclast tests turbines.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2025: L.U.C.A.
Posted on · Episode: 2025 Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Today, our last universal common ancestor.
News
Researcher Looks Into ‘Why Science and Faith Need Each Other’
Posted on · A sociologist looks into the assumption that faith and science are in conflict and shares what she has discovered in her book, Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us beyond Fear.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2001: Jacobean Evolution
Posted on · Episode: 2001 Of beasts, Bibles and Evolution: Intimations of Darwin in King James’ court. Today, beasts and Bibles.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1975: Asa Gray
Posted on · Episode: 1975 In which botanist Asa Gray shows us how to apply good science. Today, a botanist in a changing world.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1970: Cope and Marsh
Posted on · Episode: 1970 Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and their needless war. Today, needless anger.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1949: James Dwight Dana
Posted on · Episode: 1949 James Dwight Dana: a great, and nearly forgotten, American scientist. Today, America’s Charles Darwin.
inDepth
A Storm, A Death, A Pandemic: Houston Church Still On The Road To Recovery 3 Years After Harvey
Posted on · Emmanuel Episcopal Church finally has a new home after being flooded in 2017 – but they still can’t worship there.