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Modern Science: Counter-Intuition and Its Implications for Climate Change

November 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

Warren R. Johnson — A major challenge facing the survival of the planet is climate change. A recent assessment by the US Global Change Research Program, a team of 13 [...]

The Physicist and the Preacher

March 2, 2018 // 5 Comments

Warren R. Johnson — In 1949 Albert Einstein asserted, “The abstract concept ‘society’ means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct [...]

Current Status of Global Warming and Climate Change

November 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

Bob Bates — In 1896, Swedish Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius calculated that increases of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere contributed to the [...]

Uncovering Enigmas of the Universe

October 2, 2017 // 1 Comment

Bob Bates — Over a century ago physicist Max Planck, functionally an intellectual mentor of Albert Einstein in making scientific breakthroughs with prodigious consequences, [...]

Inequality of Disclosure: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

June 27, 2017 // 2 Comments

Tony Platt — In 2010, Rebecca Skloot was a little known science journalist on the faculty at the University of Memphis when her first book The Immortal Life of [...]

Creation: A Process Continuing

April 24, 2017 // 4 Comments

Bob Bates — The age of our universe is about 13.8 billion years old. Our solar system began forming about 4.5 billion years ago, with planet Earth being a part of this [...]

The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery

March 22, 2017 // 4 Comments

Bob Bates — One of the most provocative books I’ve read that deals with religion is Richard Elliot Friedman’s The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery (1995). [...]

Climate Change and Nonviolent Resistance

February 27, 2017 // 4 Comments

Ron Berger — Last November Bill McKibben, a leading environmental activist, delivered the inaugural Jonathan Schell Lecture at the New School in New York City. The [...]