C. S. Lewis on Science Abuse: Join Eric Metaxas and John West for Socrates in the City, Feb. 8 in Seattle

Apologetics, C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, Events, Faith & Science, John Lennox, John West, Politics, Public Life in the Shadowlands, Rainier Club, scientism, Socrates in the City, Stephen C. Meyer, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Magician’s Twin
Lewis was a critic of the growing power of scientism, the effort to apply science to areas outside its bounds. His writing on this couldn't be timelier. Source
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Will Scientists Now Consider Occult as Science?

astrology, aura reading, Christianity, Christians, Claudine Gay, Culture & Ethics, Davos, Faith & Science, feminists, Harvard University, Leslie McQuade, magic, mediumship, occult science, palmistry, plagiarism, private truth, public truth, Salem Witch Trials, spirituality, Switzerland, tarot-card reading, University of Exeter, Wall Street Journal, witch doctor, witchcraft, World Economic Conference
“My truth” or (for grammatical convenience) “private truth” is making serious headway against public truth. Source
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“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

Aristotle, breathing, causality, Charles Darwin, chemical reactions, Chemistry, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, earth, Faith & Science, final causality, heart, Inertia, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, momentum, Moon, physical constants, physics, rationality, science of purpose, teleology, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas
In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Source
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Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

After Death, Alexander T. Englert, Angel Studios, atheists, box office, Charles Armitage Brown, Faith & Science, human beings, immortality, Institute for Advanced Study, John Hick, John Keats, Kurt Gödel, Marianne Gödel, materialists, mathematics, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, ontological proof, personal development, philosophy, relationships, Thomas Aquinas
Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Source
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Design in the Grand Human Story

Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Tennyson, Benjamin Wiker, biochemistry, birth, Canceled Science, Charles Darwin, Children, Christmas Eve, Christmastime, Emancipation Proclamation, Evolution, faith, Faith & Science, Felix Mendelssohn, future, Gettysburg Address, history, Intelligent Design, Kentucky, materialism, Napoleon, newborn, pregnancy, Prime Minister, providence, United States, William Gladstone
Two famous individuals who share the birthdate of February 12, 1809, are Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Source
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Stephen Meyer: Evidence of Mind in the Natural World

Christianity, cosmology, Doug Monroe, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Greek, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Latin, materialism, miracles, multiverse, Occam's Razor, practice, praxis, Praxis Circle, scientific method, scientific revolution, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, theology, Worldview
Can we scientifically detect the activity of a mind behind the universe? Philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer answers this question and more. Source
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Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2023: Joe Rogan and Stephen Meyer Talk Science and Faith

aliens, Bible, Brian Greene, Bryan Callen, determinism, Faith & Science, faith and science, free will, Intelligent Design, interviews, James Webb Space Telescope, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, language, Michio Kaku, miracles, multiverse, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Podcasts, psychedelics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sean Carroll, Sir Roger Penrose, Spotify, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Time magazine, transcendence
For more than three hours, Rogan asked questions about the scientific argument for the reality of God, as well as Meyer’s reasons for believing the Bible. Source
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