Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like ...

A common technique in science popularization is to take some modern scientific idea, and connect it to some much earlier notion. The classic example of this is the regular invocation of the ancient ...

For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper we probed nature, the stor.

Psalm 19:1 (RSV) The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Acts 17:28 ... In him we live and move and have our being ... It’s very fashionable nowadays for ...

In civilization after civilization, science has been ‘stillborn’ — but in Christendom, science has flourished and has brought achievements like the James Webb Space Telescope. This image of galaxy ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...

The Quran is the last revelation and a proof, not only to the pagan Arabs 1400 years ago, but also to the scientists of today. Perhaps one of the most remarkable qualities of the Quran is the complete ...

More engagement with the tools of philosophy might have helped the author shore up the position of science. (Courtesy: Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library) Why did Newton’s laws take the form ...

People appear to be disappointed with many things, including love, religion, spectator sports and cinema, but not science. If they are asked what pursuit humans have excelled in, they may all say, ...

Oreskes is the author of Why Trust Science? She is a Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University and also the co-author of Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for ...