Launching Peaceful Science
S. Joshua Swamidass
September 18, 2019
Peaceful Science is launching, a diverse community of scholars advancing science in a fractured society by engaging the grand questions together
News
S. Joshua Swamidass
Dr. Swamidass is the founder of Peaceful Science. He is an associate professor at Washington University in Saint Louis where he runs a computational biology group using artificial intelligence to explore science at the intersection of biology, chemistry, and medicine.
The Humility of Our Scholars
S. Joshua Swamidass
August 1, 2019
Darrel Falk, People like me, stuck in a specific genetic paradigm, were wrong. The humility of our scholars opens a better way forward for everyone.
Adam and Eve
Science
Greg Cootsona: The Typology of Adam and Eve
S. Joshua Swamidass
May 16, 2019
With important questions before, us how should we approach origins? Let's keep working at this with our eyes focused, not on Adam and Eve, but on Jesus.
Adam and Eve
Theology
Bring The Questions of Artificial Intelligence
S. Joshua Swamidass
May 8, 2019
Bring us your questions about AI in our current moment, or even the meaning of artificial minds. Wonder with us: What does it mean to be human?
Artificial Intelligence
How Billy Graham Married Evangelism and Anthropology
S. Joshua Swamidass
March 13, 2019
As segregation ended, the great evangelist Billy Graham contemplated the gospel alongside the anthropology of race: God hath made of one blood.
Society
Theology
A Fair Hearing for Behe
S. Joshua Swamidass
February 25, 2019
We are giving Behe a fair hearing, but he faces honest critique from scientists. This is how science works, and it is the best we can do.
Design
Dialogue
I Agree With Behe
S. Joshua Swamidass
February 12, 2019
I want to affirm again my common ground with Behe. Dialogue is only possible if we keep our common ground in view, and we have much of common ground.
Design
Dialogue
Retire Darwin Day?
S. Joshua Swamidass
February 12, 2019
In the journey toward a more gracious and inclusive origins dialogue, perhaps retiring Darwin Day could be a small but worthwhile step that we are all willing to take.
Dialogue
Evolution
On Narnians, Martians and Neanderthals
S. Joshua Swamidass
January 24, 2019
Just like us, C. S. Lewis encountered challenges from science. Rather than falling into unending arguments, he found a better way.
Adam and Eve
Science
Theology
A New Voice on Human Origins
S. Joshua Swamidass
December 21, 2018
With our first grant, a foundation will be laid from which to launch Peaceful Science as a new voice on human origins, uniquely equipped to facilitate an exchange of questions between theology and science. This could be a new way forward, where we find common ground in grand questions, rather than common answers.
Science
Society