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Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is fully operational, there is renewed chatter about the possibility of discovering extra-terrestrial life.

Today we feature a video hosted by historian of science Michael Keas that exposes three big myths about the history of Christianity and science.

The effect of the book is to misrepresent Darwin in such a way as to make those who reject Darwinism appear to be opposing a saintly anti-abolitionist.

Robert Shedinger reports on the contrast between Darwin’s private view of his theory of natural selection and the public view as detailed in his published work.

In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science?

“You might have to travel a half a billion light years from the Milky Way, past many, many galaxies, to find another cosmological wall with a galaxy like ours.”

“Scientists do love a good story,” says Keas. “Turns out there are plenty of stories we shouldn’t believe.”

Today we have the pleasure of welcoming James C. Ungureanu (PhD, University of Queensland) as a guest contributor to the Anxious Bench. He is an

Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers.

Dr. Keas explains, among things, the role that Venus with its phases, like those of our Moon, played in advancing astronomy into the modern age.