The Origins of Life by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry — The Question That Was Always There
Every serious inquiry into biology eventually arrives at the same wall. You can trace the…
The Debate That Almost Happened at Cold Spring Harbor: How E.O. Wilson and Father Stanley Jaki Were Booked for the Same 1980s Science and Religion Symposium — And What Their Near-Miss Reveals About the Universe’s Two Competing Origin Stories
In 1978, E.O. Wilson published On Human Nature. Father Stanley Jaki published The Road of Science and the Ways to God. Same year. Opposite conclusions. Cold Spring Harbor watched it happen.
Consilience by E.O. Wilson — The Book He Was Allowed to Write After the One That Got Him Burned
A review of E.O. Wilson’s Consilience — the grand unification project that makes no sense without understanding what happened to Wilson in 1975.
The Debate Stephen Jay Gould Started With a Word: How ‘NOMA’ Enraged Both Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Schönborn and Created the Most Unusual Three-Way Fight in Science-Religion History
Stephen Jay Gould proposed a truce between science and religion in 1997. Both Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Schönborn rejected it. The fallout reshaped modern intellectual history.
The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Few books arrive with the kind of philosophical weight that reorganizes how you think about…
The Astronomer Who Prayed and the Astronomer Who Didn’t: The Documented Intellectual Collision Between Owen Gingerich of Harvard and Steven Weinberg of Texas That Played Out Across Three Decades of Scientific Conferences
Owen Gingerich saw God in the fine-tuned universe. Steven Weinberg saw pointlessness. Both were Nobel-caliber astronomers. Both were right about different things.
