Vern Poythress is by any reasonable standard a deeply and widely educated man. He has six academic degrees, a B.S. from CalTech and a PhD from Harvard in mathematics. An M Div, ThM, M Litt, and a ThD ...

Course descriptions show some schools put math in a religious framework. Sept. 2, 2007 — -- School begins again, and we read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science ...

Elementary school classrooms are filled with impressionable young minds learning how to add, multiply, and divide; but few of these students will ever understand the logic and the theory behind their ...

Ten years ago, Jeffrey Adams, a mathematician at the University of Maryland, made an appearance in The New York Times that prompted a series of angry emails. His correspondents all wanted to know one ...

How is Christian faith like mathematics? The possibilities, as Dr. Annalisa Crannell sketches them, are nearly infinite. Infinity itself, for instance. "Mathematicians and Christians look at very ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It may not seem fair, but in God's "new math," the numbers really don't matter. Remember, the workers who arrived at that last hour were paid as much as those who had worked all day. The last shall be ...

Once upon a time, a great Italian published a work called the Siderius Nuncius. Galileo had seen the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. He had seen Venus moving. So, in 1606, he endorsed the ...

It's not hard to predict how eagerly the new atheists would pounce if an orthodox Christian theologian were to concede that the notion that God is three-in-one could be labeled "irrational." Or that ...

Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you. 1 Kings 17:9 This is such an interesting story where two people have to work ...