Science and Religion: Exploring the Harmonies Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/34-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:25:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Science and Religion: Exploring the Harmonies Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/34-1/ 32 32 What Does Innovation Today Tell Us About the US Economy Tomorrow? https://issues.org/what-does-innovation-today-tell-us-about-the-us-economy-tomorrow/ https://issues.org/what-does-innovation-today-tell-us-about-the-us-economy-tomorrow/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:38:04 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15253 How does the future of technological innovation look for the United States economy? Experts disagree. Techno-optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Martin Ford, and Ray Kurzweil claim that there are endless… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editors-journal/feed/ 1 Managing Water Scarcity, or Scarcely Managing? https://issues.org/book-review-managing-water-scarcity-or-scarcely-managing/ https://issues.org/book-review-managing-water-scarcity-or-scarcely-managing/#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:28:26 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15300 John Fleck’s Water is for Fighting Over and Other Myths about Water in the West is a valiant effort to make sense of the behavior of water managers and politicians in the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-managing-water-scarcity-or-scarcely-managing/feed/ 0 Mixed Messages about Public Trust in Science https://issues.org/real-numbers-mixed-messages-about-public-trust-in-science/ https://issues.org/real-numbers-mixed-messages-about-public-trust-in-science/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:07:09 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15267 For many years, the scientific community has been wondering—and often worrying—about the extent to which the public trusts science. Some observers have warned of a “war on science,” and recently some have… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/real-numbers-mixed-messages-about-public-trust-in-science/feed/ 0 Beyond the Primordial Ooze https://issues.org/beyond-the-primordial-ooze/ https://issues.org/beyond-the-primordial-ooze/#respond Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:19:48 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15265 “Real” Americans and the supposed divide between science and religion.
Jeff, John, Eldon, Dave, Ben, and Bruce meet most weekdays around the back table at the only McDonald’s in Ravenswood, West Virginia,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/beyond-the-primordial-ooze/feed/ 0 The Best Panceas for Heartaches https://issues.org/the-best-panceas-for-heartaches/ https://issues.org/the-best-panceas-for-heartaches/#respond Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:47:31 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15263 Standing before a crowd of listeners in 1914, the fundamentalist preacher Billy Sunday took a few moments to ridicule what he considered to be science’s pretensions of being a new salvation. “People… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-best-panceas-for-heartaches/feed/ 0 “Shuddering Before the Beautiful”: Trains of Thought Across the Mormon Cosmos https://issues.org/shuddering-before-the-beautiful-trains-of-thought-across-the-mormon-cosmos/ https://issues.org/shuddering-before-the-beautiful-trains-of-thought-across-the-mormon-cosmos/#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:23:27 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15261 If then th’ Astronomers, whereas they spie
A new-found Starre, their Opticks magnifie,
How brave are those, who with their Engine, can
Bring man to heaven, and heaven againe to man?
—John… Read More

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In “The Science Police” (Issues, Summer 2017), Keith Kloor alleges that self-appointed sheriffs in the scientific community are censoring or preventing research showing that… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/forum-36/feed/ 0 Returning from the Brink https://issues.org/returning-from-the-brink/ https://issues.org/returning-from-the-brink/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:00:40 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=25593 As Sheila Jasanoff suggests in “Back from the Brink: Truth and Trust in the Public Sphere” (Issues, Summer 2017), we are unlikely to successfully resolve the current crisis in the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/returning-from-the-brink/feed/ 0 When Good Intentions Backfire https://issues.org/when-good-intentions-backfire/ https://issues.org/when-good-intentions-backfire/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:00:33 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=25589 Policy analysts and commentators are fond of pointing out when good intentions can backfire—often for good reason. “The Energy Rebound Battle,” by Ted Nordhaus (Issues, Summer 2017), offers a case… Read More

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