Category Archives: Science

“I was cured” : Medicine and Misunderstanding

When we undergo a medical treatment and feel better how certain can we actually be that it was the treatment that helped us? More generally, how can we distinguish between what works and what doesn’t in medicine? Continue reading

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Genesis According to Science: The Empirical Creation Story

The story of the beginning of our universe, as a scientist today might tell it.

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Was Albert Einstein Religious?

NOT long ago, I heard a Christian quote the following words of Einstein during a religious debate against atheists: “In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there … Continue reading

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