Publications
Biology
"Effects of mutation on complexing capability in human MSH2 for MutS alpha" (PhD thesis) University of Reading
British Interplanetary Society: "Taking advantage of genomics and gene editing for space exploration in the next decade" JBiS Vol 78 No.4 April 2025 doi: 10.59332/jbis-078-03-0070
"The challenge of DNA double strand breaks for long term spaceflight" (JBIS Vol 79 No.8 July 2026 https://doi.org/10.59332/jbis-079-07-0244)
"From AlphaFold to Astronauts: Implications of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology for the Space Age" (JBIS Vol 79 No.8 July 2026 https://doi.org/10.59332/jbis-079-07-0268)
Journal of Space Analog Research: "Bringing Analog Astronautics into the Genomics Age" (submitted)
Life Sciences in Space Research: "Medical Autonomy Beyond Low Earth Orbit Surgical Preparedness and Genomic Risk Stratification for Mars Exploration" (submitted)
"Levels of susceptibility to DNA damage by solar radiation" (pending)
Acta Astronautica: "Cancer as a Design Constraint for Human Settlement of Mars: Implications for Genomic Medicine, Habitat Design, and Long-Term Survival" (pending)
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine: “Structural correlates of pathogenicity in MSH2 missense variants” (pending)
"Structural variant correlation with Lynch Syndrome within the MSH2 ATP binding site" (pending)
Artificial Intelligence
npj Microgravity: "Artificial Intelligence as the fifth crew member" (pending)
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine: "AI for interpretation of cancer-associated gene variants" (pending)
Trends in Biomedical Science: "From AlphaFold to Autonomous Discovery: The AI Revolution in Molecular Biology" (pending)
Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology: Review of Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark (accepted)
Review of "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" by Ethan Mollick (pending)
Review of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (accepted)
History and Philosophy of Science
"Untangling Eddington’s Net: Structuralist Epistemology and the foundations of Eddington’s idea" (PhD thesis) Manchester Metropolitan University
Technology and Culture: “Review of Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic by Lloyd Strickland and Harry Lewis.” Technology and Culture 66, no. 1 (2025): Page 296.
Quest: "The Historical Precedent of the Expedition 8 EVA" Quest 32:2, Pages 13-20 (2025) www.spacehistory101.com
"Interview with NASA astronaut Michael Foale" Quest 32:3, Pages 49-57 (2025) www.spacehistory101.com
"Failure and Recovery: STS-83, Columbia and the Fastest Shuttle Reflight" Quest 33:3, Pages 3-14 (2026)
"Risk, Judgment and Uncertainty: Steve Robinson's Historic EVA beneath Discovery" (submitted)
European Journal for Philosophy of Science: "Idealism in interwar physics" (pending)
History of Physics: "Astronomy Wars: the fiery but fruitful conflict between Eddington, Jeans and Milne" Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (pending)
British Journal for Philosophy of Science: "Eddington: A Complex Legacy" (upcoming)
"Remembering Eddington: The Arthur Eddington Memorial Lectureship and the Construction of Scientific Memory in Post-war Britain" (pending)
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research: Review of Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800-1920 (2023) by S. Qidwai, B. Lightman doi: 10.1080/30665906.2026.2713087
Science & Christian Belief: "Philosophy of Science, Theistic Evolution and Design" Science & Christian Belief, Vol 38, No. 2, 143-146
Philosophy
Philosophy In Review: Review of Ted Toadvine, "The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology." | Philosophy in Review (uvic.ca)
Review of “Roberta L. Millstein, ’The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium’.”. Philosophy in Review, Vol. 44, no. 4, Nov. 2024, pp. 19-21, https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/22095.
McKee, S. “Pablo Bustinduy, ’Space and Political Universalism in Early Modern Physics and Philosophy’.”. Philosophy in Review, Vol. 45, no. 1, Feb. 2025, pp. 9-11, https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/22249.
Faith and Philosophy: "Review of Evolution and Christianity by Michael Ruse" Faith & Philosophy Vol. 42 No. 1 January 2026, pages 157-161
Science and Religion
Science and Christian Belief:
Issues – Science and Christian Belief : 35-2: Review of Sandra J. Godde Reaching for Immortality: Can science cheat death?
S & CB (2024), Vol 36: Review of Peter S Williams A Universe from Someone serve.php (cis.org.uk)
"Review of John Van Sloten God Speaks Science" Science and Christian Belief April 2025 Vol 37 issue 1 serve.php
"Response to Philip J. Senter’s argument against Behemoth being a dinosaur in Job 40" Science and Christian Belief April 2025 Vol 37 issue 1 serve.php
"A Spiritual Theory of Everything? Sir Arthur Eddington’s Quest to Unite Knowledge of the Universe" with Dr Jon Reynolds Science and Christian Belief April 2025 Vol 37 issue 1 serve.php
"Christianity and Futurism" Science and Christian Belief August 2025 Vol 37 issue 2 Issues – Science and Christian Belief
"The Three-Tier problem for Science and Religion at the popular and research levels" Science and Christian Belief August 2025 Vol 37 issue 2 Issues – Science and Christian Belief
"The problems with engineering language in life sciences" Science & Christian Belief, Vol 38, No. 2, 140-142
"Christianity Beyond Earth: Faith for a Spacefaring Humanity" (pending)
"Does Natural Theology Suffer from Speciesism? Plants, Microbes and the Neglected Majority of Creation" (submitted)
Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology:
A Brief Critique of Arthur Eddington’s Approach to Science and Religion in Light of Evidentialism – The ISCAST Journal (with Dr Jon Reynolds). Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, New Series, Vol. 3 (2024), 276–289, https://doi.org/10.58913/XEUO9587
Religious Minds in the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis – The ISCAST Journal Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, New Series, Vol. 4 (2025), 24–38, https://doi.org/10.58913/OCEP8626
Review of Michael Ruse: Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution – The ISCAST Journal
A Centenary Retrospective on the Impact of Joseph Needham’s "Science, Religion and Reality" – The ISCAST Journal Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, New Series, Vol. 4 (2025), 79–95, https://doi.org/10.58913/OCEP8626
Theistic Implications in the Work of Sir James Jeans – The ISCAST Journal with Dr Jon Reynolds. Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, New Series, Vol. 5 (2026), 42–59, https://doi.org/10.58913/ABUW3206
"Christianity and Today's Evolutionary Biology: Understanding the Landscape" (accepted, forthcoming)
Review of "The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics" by Arvin M. Gouw, Ted Peters (pending)
Zygon: "From Genetic Determinism to Emergent Life: Reconstructing Peacocke for Contemporary Biology" (submitted)
"The tyranny of the mathematician: Mathematics, divine language, and the limits of scientific description" (pending)
European Journal of Science and Theology: "A centenary retrospective on Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World" (pending)
Theology and Science: "The Religious Epistemology of Sir Arthur Eddington" (pending)
Theology and Religious Studies
Reading Religion: Review of Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an - Reading Religion
Review of The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil - Reading Religion
Review of Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine - Reading Religion
Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology:
Review of Philip Goff: "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" – The ISCAST Journal
Journal of Anglican Studies McKee S. Science and Religion in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Alister McGrath. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2026. ISBN 9780198982791. Pp264. Journal of Anglican Studies. Published online 2026:1-2. doi:10.1017/S1740355326101107 Science and Religion in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Alister McGrath. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2026. ISBN 9780198982791. Pp264. | Journal of Anglican Studies | Cambridge Core
Popular articles
PreCiS: PreCiS-2024-winter-110-final.pdf Science and Christian Apologetics - help or hindrance?
The Genetics Society: "Science Talks in Secondary Schools: Inciting Passion for the Possibilities in Genetics" Issue-89-v8-FINAL-corrected-again-compressed.pdf (genetics.org.uk)
"Perspectives: Recruiting the next generation of geneticists" (upcoming)
The Mars Society:
The Conversation: Theory of everything: how a fear of failure is hampering physicists’ quest for the ultimate answer (theconversation.com)
The five scholars who won two Nobel Prizes – and what sets them apart (theconversation.com)
Human settlement of Mars isn’t as far off as you might think
How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars
The Freethinker: Is ‘intelligent design’ on the cusp of overthrowing evolutionary science? - The Freethinker
Rescuing our future scientists and engineers from quitting before they start - The Freethinker
Bringing back the dialectic: interview with Stephen ‘Rationality Rules’ Woodford - The Freethinker
A farewell to Dawkins? - The Freethinker
Reality always wins: the perils of ideological science - The Freethinker
'Religion is a killer now': interview with Professor Peter Atkins - The Freethinker
Evil gods and fun with philosophy: Interview with Professor Stephen Law - The Freethinker
Cultivating epistemic virtue: interview with Julian Baggini - The Freethinker
Why Design Arguments Necessarily Fail - The Freethinker
The Scopes Monkey Trial a century on: A global mess that nobody won - The Freethinker
The Ghost of Scopes: Creationists Never Give Up - The Freethinker
Review of ‘The War On Science’, edited by Lawrence Krauss - The Freethinker
Lessons from Feynman - The Freethinker
A Call to Futurism: The Artemis Pioneers - The Freethinker
"A 20-year retrospective on the Kitzmiller v Dover Trial" (submitted)
How humanism became the new driver of futurism - The Freethinker
"Interview with Professor Simon Walker-Samuel" (submitted)
"Should we debate Creationists?" (submitted)
"Deconstruction and the rise of the exvangelicals" (submitted)
"How do I know if I am an idealogue?" (submitted)
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Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth | Samuel McKee » IAI TV
Our culture needs to defeat dystopia | Samuel McKee » IAI TV
"The Ethical Dilemma of Martian Surgery" (pending)
"A century on, are we any closer to finding the nature of ultimate reality?" (pending)
Church Times: Christians in the life sciences need a home (churchtimes.co.uk)
Scientists who were not afraid of belief (churchtimes.co.uk)
Two very different tales of science and religion
Letters to the Editor - "Christians - take encouragement from Artemis 2"
The Catholic Herald: How Georges Lemaître’s year in Cambridge led to the Big Bang
Faith and Thought: "Convergent evolution, the constraints of nature, and how it informs science and religion" (accepted, forthcoming May 2026)
"Contrasting approaches to naturalism among believing scientists of the past century" (submitted)
Premier Magazine: Which is right? Science or religion? | Article | NexGen
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