The Ichthus has been trying to look at a variety of fields of study from a Christian perspective, but we tend to focus on philosophy, theology, and art because that’s what the editors and writers specialize in. So this post is my attempt to reach out to students from other fields. I know not all
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Yesterday, free copies of a new edition of Darwin’s groundbreaking On the Origin of Species were distributed at the entrances to Harvard Yard on Massachusetts Avenue. I was pleasantly surprised to receive the book (even though the text is available online), because it may be one of the most influential works of all time. But
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Our most recent issue contains at least three arguments for pacifism from Christian premises. After reading all three, I remain unconvinced of the truth of the pacifist thesis.[1] Perhaps this fact reflects callousness on my part; I am more inclined to think it reflects some deficiency in the arguments presented. In fact, I can put
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My time and passion have been utterly consumed of late with beginning of the year ministry stuff here at Harvard, but I hope to start up a fresh series or two on this blog soon. In the meantime–and in lieu of any genuinely original thoughts of my own or the freedom to pursue them–I thought I’d post some classic insights from (mostly
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Last week I summarized the argument of John Walton’s The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate and promised to explain exactly what I take to be problematic about it. This week, I fulfill my promise. I would like to begin by playing with an intuition that I think most people
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I can’t imagine a more beautiful place to write than where I’m currently sitting, in the lounge of Grand Teton National Park’s Jackson Lake Lodge. The view from here steals your breath away, especially at sunset when the mountains glow from behind with a golden halo and the sky turns a profound royal purple. If
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Recently I have become interested in the history of science, particularly of biology, and my wanderings in that field have led me in countless surprising and interesting directions. I have learned, for example, that the whole science of evolutionary biology owes its existence to the first primitive herbalists, that the invention of the microscope was
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