As many of you know, philosopher Alvin Plantinga will be on campus next week. This week we will watch a video of Plantinga's Veritas Forum lecture given earlier this year in California, in which he addresses the claim that science implies secularism. Come out to get a taste of this renowned scholar before seeing him […]

ABSTRACT: I'll consider the claim on the part of several theologians, philosophers and scientists that modern science shows or suggests that God never acts specially in the world , i.e., never acts beyond creation and conservation. (Miracles would be an example of special divine action.) I'll argue that there is no conflict between special divine […]

Roger Steele has worked with a Christian nongovernmental humanitarian and development organization, World Vision, for the past 6 years as an Evaluation and Capacity Building Specialist. He lives and works in Ithaca (relying more and more on virtual Internet-based technologies) when not traveling on an international assignment to one of the almost 100 WV national […]

Due to fall break, it was a relaxed viewing and the discussion afterwards much the same. Quite pleasant!

Scientific theories must do more than merely satisfy the data; they must do so in a way that is (to use a term much favored by mathematicians) "elegant." Kepler, Maxwell, and Einstein are examples of scientists who found that a sense of esthetic "rightness" helped them to direct their scientific intuition toward theories that could […]