God’s will and the coronavirus
I don’t believe the Coronavirus is God’s plan. God is not causing a pandemic that kills some, makes many miserable, and has widespread adverse effects on society.
The use and limits of science in making ethical decisions
Editor’s note: This article originally was published in the January 2020 edition of the Journal of Lutheran Ethics and republished here with permission. As Christians, we have the ethical responsibility to be good stewards of God’s creation and to advocate for care of...
Evolution and mystery: Confessions of a Darwinian skeptic
The Darwinian mechanism driving evolution – natural selection acting on randomly produced variation in populations of organisms – I no longer accept.
Fighting over Evolution? Why?
Millennial young people, whom we do not see in our church pews on Sundays, frequently complain that the Christian religion is anti-science right along with being anti-everything else they take for granted. When it comes to the people who do sit comfortably in our...
Artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and rival salvations
Watching a seated cat ride across the living room carpet on top of a Roomba is cute because the cat is cute; not because the vacuum cleaner is intelligent. Much of what we call artificial intelligence (AI) or machine intelligence is so common that it prompts at best...
