by Tom Are, Jr.
Do we begin, from the very beginning, as a person? Or do we become a person somewhere along the way? This is the moral question that is raised by the remarkable advances of embryonic stem-cell research. In December 1981, Elizabeth Carr was the first in vitro or “test tube baby” born in […]
by Trevor Eppehimer
In his essay, “The Evangelical Love Affair with Enlightenment Science,”1 noted religious historian George Marsden debunks the popular conception, often conveyed in the mainstream media, that the American conservative evangelical tradition is, by its very nature, hostile toward modern science. According to Marsden, nothing could be further from the truth. American conservative evangelicalism has, […]