Our Front Porch
Walter Rogero
October 24, 2018
So have you heard the one about the atheist, the creationist, and the computational biologist? Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn't it? But what if it wasn't the start of a joke, but the start of a conversation?
Forum
Article Archive
So Much to Discuss
S. Joshua Swamidass
September 29, 2018
13 articles from the Intelligent Design movement directed at Peaceful Science in just 2 months. We have so much to discuss.
Design
Dialogue
Three Stories on Adam
S. Joshua Swamidass
August 5, 2018
Three different stories of Adam and Eve might be consistent with the genetic evidence. It returns us to the Grand Questions of Origins. We all should care.
Adam and Eve
Science
The Perils of Digital Dialogue
S. Joshua Swamidass
August 3, 2018
In the conversation between theology and science, digital dialogue is important, but comes with perils. Maybe DOIs could help us do better.
Dialogue
Society
Canfield’s Confession to Doubters
Robert Canfield
July 8, 2018
Read the anthropologist Robert Canfield's confession of the Resurrection here. Canfield affirms evolution, but it is Jesus that reordered his entire world.
Confession
Resurrection
The Axiom of Belief
S. Joshua Swamidass
June 28, 2018
Dr. Andy Walsh, a Ph.D trained computational biologist, and he is publishing his first book, Faith Across the Multiverse: Parables from Modern Science. Dr. Walsh is computational biologist, just like me. Early in our training, computational biologists become intellectual omnivores and polyglots. To be successful, we must weave between several fields. This comes through in \[...\]
Science
Theology
Assessing the Ross-Rana Model
S. Joshua Swamidass
June 21, 2018
Reasons to Believe (RTB) is among the most important organizations in the origins conversation. It is led by a wise leader, whom I deeply respect, Dr. Hugh Ross. I had the privilege of sharing the stage with him this last January, asking Are Humans Special? Recently, I invited Dr. Fazale Rana from RTB into dialogue about \[...\]
Adam and Eve
Dialogue
Science
An Invitation to Dr. Fazale Rana
S. Joshua Swamidass
June 5, 2018
This letter was just posted to Dr. Rana's facebook page, and lightly edited here. On Facebook, a Reasons to Believe supporter asked Dr. Rana to engage my work on population genetics, and Dr. Rana refused. Dr. Fazale Rana (of Reasons to Believe), I would like to warmly invite you to dialogue on the article you \[...\]
Adam and Eve
Dialogue
An Old Earther on Peaceful Science
Mark Moore
June 5, 2018
Mark M. Moore is an Old Earth Creationist (OEC), and has been an active participant on the Peaceful Science forums. He recently became one of our moderators. Of note, Mark wrote an important book, Early Genesis, on Genesis 1-11, where he independently comes to a reading of Genesis 1 and 2 which describes a population \[...\]
Dialogue
Forum
Cancer and Evolution
S. Joshua Swamidass
May 31, 2018
Evolutionary theory makes sense of cancer, giving us critical insight into how it works. Going the other direction, cancer makes sense of evolution too.
Evolution
Science