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Rocket Pioneer Remembered as Man of Faith

July 10, 2006

Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) deserves a good reputation, said Anthony Young in an article for The Space Review. He was loved and admired by the people who worked with him but vilified by others because of his involvement with the German V2 rocket. Young desired to set the record straight about his integrity. To round […]

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Did Early Islam Promote Science?

December 16, 2004

Nature published a news feature this week crediting a religion, Islam, with advancing science, but saying nothing about the Christian roots of science.1 It begins, Western science owes much to Islam’s golden age – a debt that is often forgotten. To help redress the balance, Fuat Sezgin has reconstructed a host of scientific treasures using […]

Bible and Theology

Newton Believed in Absolute Truth

August 19, 2004

One would think by now everything written by or about Isaac Newton has been printed. Not so; Nature1 reports August 19 that a commentary on the Apocalypse (Revelation) by Newton was published for the first time just last month by The Newton Project online. Newton’s commentary holds “radical” views that the Pope was the personification […]

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Science Journal Takes Political Sides

August 5, 2004

It might seem unusual or even improper for a science journal to encourage its readers to vote for a particular presidential candidate, especially for voters in a different country than its publishers’ domicile. Nature Aug. 5 contained two such articles that could hardly be defended as non-partisan. An editorial1 said in ostensibly neutral terms, “Researchers […]

Physical Science

Editorial

August 3, 2004

Rodney Stark (Baylor University) has written an article very critical of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and the other early promoters of evolution, and their modern counterparts, in American Enterprise Online. Stark claims that Darwin never proved his central thesis, the origin of species, and was well aware of the problems in his thesis even while […]

Astronomy

Lutherans Helped Copernicus

April 30, 2004

Every once in awhile, we are confronted to reconsider things we “know” are true, only to find out the truth is closer to the opposite. The usual spin on Nicolaus Copernicus is that he was a brave scientist who threatened the church with his discovery that the earth orbits the sun, not the sun the […]

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