Is the Universe Absurd?

December 2015 Pulse In an interesting essay published in 1998, the well-known Australian populariser of science Paul Davies asks a provocative question: ‘Is the Universe Absurd?’ In crafting his answer, Davies begins by pointing out the marvellous things about our...

Three Adults and a Baby

September 2015 Pulse On 3 Feb 2015, the British Parliament voted 382 to 128 in favour of legalising a technique in assisted reproductive technology known as mitochondrial replacement, after much heated debate. The UK is the first country in the world to legalise this...

Transhumanism

What is Transhumanism? And how should Christians respond to its philosophy? The twenty-first century has been described by some as the ‘Age of Bio-technology’. Advances in science and technology, especially in cybernetics and nanotechnology, are so rapid and...

AI and Society

August 2015 Pulse In the summer of 1956, a group of scientists gathered at the campus of Dartmouth University for a two-month workshop that would launch the modern artificial intelligence (AI) programme. At the end of the workshop, MIT scientists Marvin Minsky, Claude...