Suggested Readings - Archive

U.S. College Students’ Perception of Religion and Science: Conflict, Collaboration, or Independence? A Research Note (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion [2011] 50, 175–186)

A. Giuliani, I. Licata, C. Modonesi, P. Crosignani, "What is Artificial about Life?" (The Scientific World Journal 11 [2011] 651–654)

Deflating the Genomic Bubble by J.P. Evans et al (Science, February 18, 2011)

Philosophy lives. Why Stephen Hawking’s attempt to banish natural theology only shows why we need it, by John Haldane (First Things, January 2011)

The Truth wears off, by Jonah Lehrer (The Newyorker, December 13, 2010)

"Curiouser and curiouser: managing discovery making", by Ahmed Zewail (Nature 468, 347 (2010), November 17)

Even Stephen Hawking doesn't quite manage to explain why we are here (The Economist, September 9, 2010)

Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010) Obituary (Nature Physics 6 , 633 (2010), september)

How to feed a Hungry World (Nature's Editorial, July 29, 2010, Nature 466, 531-532)

Birth of the first synthetic cell. On Craig Venter's experiment (by Ewen Callaway, New Scientist, May 20, 2010)

Hubble Space Telescope clocks up 20 years (by Katharine Sanderson, NatureNews, April 22 2010)

“Cogito Ergo Sum by MRI” (by Allan H. Ropper, M.D., The New England Journal of Medicine, February 2010)

“Genotype-phenotype mapping and the end of the ‘genes as blueprint’ metaphor” (by Massimo Pigliucci, The Royal Society, February 2010)

“Should Evolutionary Theory Evolve? Some biologists are calling for a rethink of the rules of evolution.” (by Bob Grant, The Scientist, January 2010)

"The Dawkins' Evolution" (book reviewed by D. Hart to Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, First Things, January 2010)

"Are you an honest scientist?" (by Bruce Charlton, Medical Hypotheses, 73, pp. 633-635, 2009)

"The Very Idea of a University: Aristotle, Newman and Us", by Alasdair MacIntyre (British Journal of Educational Studies, 57 (2009) 347-362)

"Making Automation Work" (by Samuel Greengard, Communications of the ACM, 52, pp. 18-19, 2009)

"Science Is in the Details" (by Francis Collins appointed as director of National Institute of Health by Sam Harris, The New York Times, July 26 2009)

“The possibility of impossible cultures” (by Marc D. Hauser, Nature, July 2009)

"Vatican's Celestial Eye: Seeking Not Angels but Data" (The New York Times, June 23 2009)

"Getting Stem Cells Right" (by Maureen L. Condic, First Things, February 2008)

"Laws of Nature, Source Unknown" (by Dennis Overbye, New York Times, December 18, 2007)

"Taking Science on Faith" (by Paul Davies, The New York Times, November 24, 2007)

"Faith and Quantum Theory" (by Stephen M. Barr, First Things, March 2007)