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• Interview with Doug Pagitt: Dark galaxies, exoplanets, and why working scientists don’t pooh-pooh Neil deGrasse Tyson
  on Aug 31, 2016 in Astronomy Interviews and podcasts Science Doug Pagitt Tick Talk Take
  Artist’s conception of sunset on Proxima b. Its sun, Proxima Centauri, orbits the stars Alpha and Beta Centauri (the faint pair). Proxima Centauri is the closest star to us (after the Sun of course). Image credit: European Southern Observatory...
• Three months, three birds
  on Aug 17, 2016 in Beauty Death Nature Birds of America John James Audubon
  Not a ruby-throated, but close enough. John James Audubon, Mango Hummingbird, Detail of Plate 184 of Birds of America. Click image for a nice high-resolution version of the whole thing OUTER SPACE is still out there I suppose, but my personal cosmos...
• Interview on Things Not Seen
  on Aug 2, 2016 in Books Interviews and podcasts David Dault Things Not Seen
  Click on the image above to hear the podcast Hi friends. A month or so ago I chatted with David Dault at Things Not Seen about religion and science and life and the universe and everything. Which includes my book. Last week I was in Chicago and was...
• Ark Encounter and the death of wonder
  on Jul 6, 2016 in Creationism Current events Literalism Religion Weirdness Ark Encounter Ken Ham
  The ark seems to float on a sea of creationists in this image from Ark Encounter’s ribbon cutting ceremony. Jim Lo Scalzo I hoped it wouldn’t happen. I even secretly thought it wouldn’t happen. But I underestimated the tenacity of...
• God and the blackbird
  on Jul 5, 2016 in Beauty Death Doubt God Nature Personal stories John James Audubon
  John James Audubon, American Crow, Plate 156 of Birds of America About an hour before Dad died I glanced out of his bedroom window and saw a crow. It was perched in a familiar poplar right at eye level and only a few yards away. I stopped to look at...
• There is a balm in the back yard
  on Jun 15, 2016 in Death Nature Personal stories
  The newest and greenest member of my personal cosmos. These guys like sunning themselves atop our wooden fence It’s been five weeks since Dad died. In that time I have found it difficult — impossible, really — to do thinking work, c...
• A beautiful life
  on May 16, 2016 in Beauty Death Personal stories
  Kristen, our youngest, under the CSX bridge at Ira Melton Park, a very short walk from our house. My son Henry took the picture last month Dad, my counselor and my rock, died Wednesday after fighting various cancers for several years. In the end it w...
• Interview with Luke Norsworthy
  on May 2, 2016 in Interviews and podcasts Luke Norsworthy
  Luke Norsworthy and I had a nice chat last week and the podcast is now up. Tune in to hear about religion and science, the book of Job, evolution, Isaac Newton, God as presence, the pros and cons of ex nihilo, Stars Beneath Us, the supreme un-shoehor...
• The world is not finite: final questions from the youth of Edina
  on Apr 27, 2016 in Christianity Questions Religion Science Scripture Unmatched socks
  Master Bertram, Grabow Altarpiece (detail showing the creation of the beasts), c. 1383. I love how the lower section of the robe has been made to look like the sea Greetings, dear readers. I’ve had a very busy month of traveling and speaking an...
• How to talk to creationists
  on Mar 24, 2016 in Arguments Creationism Science Young Earth Creationism
  The Phillip Medhurst Picture Torah 14, Temptation of Adam and Eve. Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo I received a note from a youth pastor yesterday. He is fascinated by science but works in a Midwestern church that leans heavily towa...

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