Just in case you haven’t had anything creep you out lately. Here you go:Â Resident Evil? DARPA Unveils Genetic “Tuning” To Fight Chemical, Radiation Attacks Of course. This would never lead to anything else.
Science & Theology
Did NASA Announce It Has Found Life on Mars or Outer Space?
Short answer: No. But to read the click-bait headlines circulating on the internet in the last couple of days, you’d think so. All you need to do is read NASA’s own announcement — just the first paragraph: NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new...
Does the Bible Teach Science? How the Bible’s Own Context Answers the Question
Here’s the latest “infographic” video from Shaun. I think this audience will appreciate it a lot and find it useful for helping others to think through this issue. I’ve written (and commented in podcast episodes) that the Bible was not intended...
Gene Editing on Demand (“Eugenics for Everyone”)
What could go wrong? Maybe Planned Parenthood will want in on this . Or not. It means babies being born. My bad. And another one: Progressive Eugenics Is Hardly History–the Science and Politics Have Just Evolved
RFID Chips are Yesterday’s Mark of the Beast: Introducing Nanochips and Smart Dust
This article ought to make all those people who have equated the mark of the Beast with microchips blush with naive embarrassment and then curl into the fetal position: “Nanochips And Smart Dust: The Dangerous New Face Of The Human Microchipping Agenda”...
Science Now Able to Remotely Hack the Brain
Yes, you read that correctly. Good thing I don’t need to make things up for my novels. Stuff like this makes freaking readers out a whole lot easier. Thanks, scientists!
The Portent Portending: Synthetic Genomes Are Just a Click Away
Readers of my fiction know that synthetic biology was a sub-plot element in The Portent. Well, we’re moving down the road toward creating humans from scratch (or some sort of human derivative). This article describes a new process for creating a functioning...
DNA, Canaanites, and the Biblically-Illiterate Media
By now I’ve probably received a heads up on the story about Canaanite DNA disproving the biblical conquest narrative a dozen times. Here’s my own heads-up: If you see some “news” about the Bible in mass media, you can presume it’s...
This is What Encourages “Truth by Anomaly and Outlier” Thinking
I’ve blogged about the problem of how the peer review process in the sciences has been compromised by laziness and money. Here we go again:Â “Sting Operation Reveals Science’s Insane Fake News Problem.” As the article’s author notes by way...
Serious Science and Christian Faith Incompatible?
Go ahead, tell me that old wives tale again. Question: What do you get when you cross a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, an associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and a young man who grew up in rural Africa who had a...
Sub-Plot from The Portent in the News: Secret Meeting Held at Harvard about Creating a Synthetic Human Genome
This happened at least a half dozen times with The Facade — something in the book becomes news after the fact.  Here we go again with The Portent : From the Christian Science Monitor: Why did Harvard Scientists Hold a ‘Secret’ Synthetic Genome...
DNA CRISPR Critters: We Shall Be as Gods
Have you read my novel, The Portent ?  If so, the subject matter of the link below will sound familiar: Gene Drives – Will Conqueror Biomolecular Bots Dictate a New Book of Life? One of the sub-plots to The Portent  is the use of genetic alteration and synthetic...
Interview with Annie Jacobsen on DARPA
I was fortunate to spend some time with Derek and Sharon Gilbert last week in Missouri. One of the things we talked about briefly was Annie Jacobsen’s work. I highly recommend her books Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base...
Pluto Fly-By Conspiracies: More Pseudo-Science
The fly-by photographs taken of Pluto as part of NASA’s New Horizons mission to gather data on Pluto have been all the rage on the internet. Naturally, not everything has gone as expected; there have been technical glitches. Equally as normative, voices on the...
Remember Gravity Modification and Rotation with Superconductors for UFO Propulsion in The Facade?
Watch this: