Science & Biblical Faith Dialogue

Stories

  1. Galileo, Evidence, And Christian FaithThe Galileo affair is often presented as a simple contest between a brave scientist and an anti-science church. That version is memorable, but it leaves out…
  2. Eye Design, Evolution, And the Ophthalmologist’s ViewAn ophthalmologist on the design of the eye and the limits of evolutionary storytelling can offer a valuable perspective in the conversation between science…
  3. Nature, Creation and Christian Care in AustraliaThe natural world is more than a collection of resources waiting for human use. In biblical theology, land, oceans, animals, weather and human communities…
  4. Dinosaurs, Scripture, And Faith In Children’s MinistryChildren are fascinated by dinosaurs because these animals make the ancient world feel vivid and enormous. In Australia, that fascination appears in school…
  5. Trees, climate and the biblical meaning of righteousnessA forest ecologist spends much of their working life noticing relationships. Soil, rainfall, fungi, insects, roots and canopy form a living network in which no…
  6. A physicist on the anthropic principle and awarenessPhysics describes a universe governed by remarkably consistent patterns. The strength of gravity, the behaviour of light, and the properties of matter all fall…
  7. An Anthropologist on Burial Practices and the Hope of the ResurrectionAcross cultures and millennia, human beings have laid their dead to rest with deliberate care. From the earliest known graves in southern Africa to…
  8. Does the sun move around the Earth in Ecclesiastes?Ecclesiastes 1:5 describes the sun rising, setting and hurrying back to the place from which it rises. Read in a modern English translation, the verse can…
  9. South Africa's Non-Religious Youth and the Church's ResponseOver the past decade, sociologists tracking religious affiliation have noticed something striking happening among young people in South Africa. Census data and…
  10. When Resonance Meets Wonder: Music, Science, and the Patterns of GodLong before scientists mapped the spiral arms of distant galaxies and long before choirs lifted their voices in cathedrals across the world, human beings were…