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Infectious Agents
Good Germs, Bad Germs.
by Matthew Sleeth
July/August 2008

Transmutation
How alchemy contributed to the emergence of modern science.
by Mary Ellen Bowden and Neil Gussman
March/April 2008

The Guy in the Wheelchair
God & Stephen Hawking
by Karl W. Giberson
September/October 2007

No Chance
Michael Behe is back.
by Ric Machuga
July/August 2007

Nature's Economy
Economics and the natural sciences.
by Andrew P. Morriss
May/June 2007

Chemical Reactions
Nerve gas and other unconventional weapons.
by Neil Gussman
January/February 2007

The Big Sing
A new account of the origins of language.
by John H. McWhorter
September/October 2006

Sharks in Kansas
Before Thomas Frank.
by Robert Reber
September/October 2006

What's New?
Two biologists claim to close a "major gap in Darwin's theory" of evolution.
by Jonathan Wells
September/October 2006

Why Don't They Just Speak English?
The World Atlas of Language Structures.
by John H. McWhorter
July/August 2006

Weapon of Self-Destruction
An American weapon that has never killed an enemy but still claims innocent victims.
By Neil Gussman
January/February 2006

The Patent Clerk from Mount Olympus
Einstein's annus mirabilis.
by Karl W. Giberson
November/December 2005

Oh No, Polio
A disease that left its mark.
by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
November/December 2005

When the Sky Was Orange
An environmental history of China.
by John Copeland Nagle
July/August 2005

The Return of Universal History
Taking the long view.
by Donald A. Yerxa
July/August 2005

God the Economist
John Polkinghorne's Trinitarian reality.
by Catherine and Andy Crouch
July/August 2005

The Greatest of These
The science of love.
by Karl W. Giberson
July/August 2005

Everything That Rises Must Converge
The "inevitable and preordained trajectories" of evolution.
by William Dembski
November/December 2004

Fat!
The science of obesity.
by Elissa Elliott
September/October 2004

Bad Seed
Why did so many American churches embrace eugenics?
by Philip Jenkins
July/August 2004

The View from Somewhere
The importance of place in scientific discovery.
By John Stenhouse
May/June 2004

"A Somewhat Higher Opinion of God"
A conversation with biologist Ken Miller.
Interview by Karl W. Giberson
March/April 2004

Environment as Creation
Conquest vs. care for the wilderness.
by Walter Brueggemann
January/February 2004

Finding Darwin's God
A conversation with biologist Ken Miller.
Interview by Karl W. Giberson
January/February 2004

The Curious Case of the Exploding Universe
Stories from behind the scenes of science.
by Catherine H. Crouch
January/February 2004

Don't Know Much Biology
Cosmic Origins 101
by Edward J. Larson
November/December 2003

Life History
The first three billion years
by Catherine H. Crouch
September/October 2003

Reading God's Two Books
Reconciling the written Word with the starry skies.
by Philip Jenkins
March/April 2003

Let Us Prey
The menace of nanotechnology in storytelling and science.
by C. Christopher Hook
March/April 2003

The Goldilocks Universe
Is our cosmos the whole kaboodle, or is it merely one among an infinite number of universes?
by Karl W. Giberson
January/February 2003

How the Monkey Got His Tail
by William A. Dembski
November/December 2002

The Peppered Myth
Of Moths and Men: An evolutionary tale.
by Jonathan Wells
September/October 2002

It Takes Three to Tango
Neither syntax nor semantics maps the full richness of everyday speech.
by John H. McWhorter
July/August 2002

The Small Chill
Rediscovering climate's impact on history.
by Donald A. Yerxa
May/June 2002

The Big Chills
Are modern humans the survivors of hundreds of episodes of rapid global cooling?
by John Wilson
May/June 2002

Father of Eugenics
The life of Sir Francis Galton.
by Richard Weikart
May/June 2002

God and Time Machines
A conversation with Templeton Prize-winning physicist Paul Davies.
Interview by Karl W. Giberson
March/April 2002

A Geography of Reading
Huxley lambasted it. Darwin was made uneasy. The masses devoured it. A biograhpy of a book.
by David N. Livingstone
January/February 2002

The Warden of Time and Space
Part 3: Summing Newton up.
by Karl W. Giberson
January/February 2002

SCIENCE PAGES
Of Poetry and Polyspermy
The natural history of human reproduction.
by Bethany Torode
January/February 2002

The Warden of Time and Space
Part 2: Newton's Principia.
by Karl W. Giberson
November/December 2001

Galileo Had a Daughter
Science is always entangled in the particulars of a time and place.
by Virginia Stem Owens
May/June 2001

Darwinism Gone to Seed
The role of place, race, religion, and gender.
by James Moore
March/April 2001

The Universe Has a Mind of Its Own
A conversation with Templeton Prize-winner Freeman Dyson.
interview by Karl W. Giberson
November/December 2000

How Not to Do a Sex Change
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
by Heather Looy
September/October 2000

Science, Southern-Style
Science, Race, and Religion In the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle Of Naturalists, 1815-1895 by Lester D. Stephens
by David N. Livingstone
September/October 2000

Creation by Design
Is the intelligent-design movement asking natural scientists to work outside their proper focus?
by Alan G. Padgett
July/August 2000

Science in Miniature
Sex and Death, French DNA, and Other Ingenious Pursuits
by Catherine H. Crouch
July/August 2000

Mr. Uncertainty
The mystery of Werner Heisenberg
by Karl Giberson
March/April 2000

Because It Works, That's Why!
Pragmatism is solid meat for scientists. But for philosophers it's thin gruel indeed.
The Concept of Probability In Statistical Physics by Y.M. Guttmann
by William A. Dembski
March/April 2000

Much Ado About Nada
The cosmological quest for nothing.
by Karl Giberson
January/February 2000

Is Science Good for the Soul?
Then sings my psychophysical somatic unity!
by Matt Donnelly
January/February 2000

The Rules Have Stayed the Same
How the Internet can be the bastion of order as we move into the twenty-first century.
by Aaron Belz
January/February 2000

Science Without Laws?
Science Without Laws by Ronald N. Giere
by Margaret C. Jacob
November/December 1999

Evolution and Ethics
E.O. Wilson has more in common with Thomas Aquinas than he realizes.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
by Larry Arnhart
November/December 1999

Speaking About Tongues
Do languages evolve?
Tower Of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creation by Robert Pennock
Darwinism and the Linguistic Image by Stephen G. Alter
by John Wilson
November/December 1999

Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism
"One of the purposes of "The Science Pages" is to correct the notion that to talk about "science" is to talk about Darwinian evolution, pro or con … "
Introduction
September/October 1999

Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism—Phillip Johnson
"Robert Pennock's book is an all-out attack on the "new creationists," a.k.a. the Intelligent Design Movement (hereafter IDM), an informal group of which I am currently the most prominent representative … "
by Phillip Johnson
September/October 1999

Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism—Robert Pennock
"In his writings, law professor Phillip Johnson portrays himself as a soldier in the "culture wars," the point man in a "wedge strategy" to break apart the "religion" of evolution and to bring creationism into the mainstream."
by Robert Pennock
September/October 1999

Brave New China
The return of eugenics.
Imperfect Conceptions; Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics In China by Frank Dikötter
by Richard Weikart
September/October 1999

The Unthinkable
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning Of Life by Paul Davies
by William A. Dembski
September/October 1999

Technology from A to Z
"I love technology; I love my home theater system with its huge subwoofer; I love my 200 cd megachanger (Bruce Hornsby is singing in the background) … "
Visions of Technology edited by Richard Rhodes
To Light Such A Candle: Chapters In the History of Science and Technology by Keith J. Laidler
by Karl Giberson
July/August 1999

The Last Magic
"If mathematics is about finding solutions to well-defined problems, then philosophy is about finding problems in what previously we thought were well-settled solutions … "
The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem by Mark Steiner
by William A. Dembski
July/August 1999

Continental Gifts
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond argues that the arc of human history was shaped primarily by geography.
Interview by Karl Giberson and Donald A. Yerxa
July/August 1999

No More Disembodied Minds
" … These gobbets, from autobiographies of two distinguished-one might say archetypal-Victorians, reveal rather different ways of taking the measure of a self … "
by David N. Livingstone
May/June 1999

Gender Divided
"Claudia Henrion's Women and Mathematics: The Addition of Difference clearly has an appeal to specialists, but it is worth reading even if one's specialty is neither mathematics nor women … "
by James E. Mann, Jr.
May/June 1999

Do Parents Matter?
It's not the hand that rocks the cradle, but the one that turns the jumprope that rules the world.
by Margaret G. Alter
March/April 1999

Time-and-Emotion Studies
A little historical perspective helps us get a grip on our emotions.
by Trey Buchanan
March/April 1999

I Cerebrate Myself
Is there a little man inside your brain?
by Nancey Murphy
January/February 1999

Time Travel for Nonscientists
"Paul Johnson's popular history of the twentieth century opens thus: 'The Modern World began on 29 May 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse, taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral in Brazil, confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe.' … "
by Karl Giberson
January/February 1999

A Poet Reads Darwin
"In Robert Frost's poem 'New Hampshire,' published during the heyday of William Jennings Bryan's crusade against the theory of evolution, a friendly farmer reports that 'The matter with the Mid-Victorians / Seems to have been a man named John L. Darwin.' … "
by Mark Walhout
January/February 1999

A Fifty Year Walk
Reflections on God's immanence in creation.
by Larry Woiwode
November/December 1998

Science and God—Quantum Physics
Scientist-theologian John Polkinghorne likes his particles elementary and his thinking complex.
Interview by Karl Giberson, Kent Hill, & Donald Yerxa
September/October 1998

Science and God—The Design Debate
Does "chance" rule out God? Does near-impossibility require him?
by Michael J. Behe
September/October 1998

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