Current Research aReas

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"Effects of mutation on complexing capability in human MSH2 for MutS alpha" (pending)

British Interplanetary Society: "Taking advantage of genomics and gene editing for space exploration in the next decade" (accepted, Winter 2024)

"Astronomy Wars: the fiery but fruitful conflict between Eddington, Jeans and Milne" Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (upcoming)

"Eddington: A Complex Legacy" (upcoming)

"Idealism in interwar physics" (pending)

Technology and Culture: Review of "Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic" by Lloyd Strickland and Harry Lewis (Winter 2024)

Quest: "Interview with NASA hall of fame astronaut Dr Michael Foale"

"Exploring the precedent of the Expedition 8 EVA" (upcoming)

"Are you smarter than a slime mold?" (pending)

"Imagination and Reality: Symbiosis, Synthesis or Antithesis?" (pending)

Philosophia Christi: Review of God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity by Dr Max Baker-Hytch (accepted, Spring 2025)

Philosophy In Review: Review of Ted Toadvine, "The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology." | Philosophy in Review (uvic.ca) 

Review of The Land Is Our Community by Roberta L. Millstein (upcoming)

Review of Space and Political Universalism in Early Modern Physics and Philosophy by Pablo Bustinduy (upcoming)

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 (accepted, upcoming)

Response to Philip J. Senter’s argument against Behemoth being a dinosaur in Job 40 (accepted, Spring 2025)

A Spiritual Theory of Everything? Sir Arthur Eddington’s Quest to Unite Knowledge of the Universe with Dr Jon Reynolds (accepted, spring 2025)

Letters - Christianity and Futurism (accepted, Spring 2025)

"In defense of human gene editing" (pending)

Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology: 

A Brief Examination of Arthur Eddington’s Approach to Science and Religion in Light of Evidentialism with Dr Jon Reynolds (accepted, upcoming) 

"Letter: Is Nature's toolbox something to be plundered for the future?" (pending)

Review of  Samuel T. Wilkinson: Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence – The ISCAST Journal

Review of Spencer and Waite's Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (accepted, upcoming)

Response to Andrew Sloane on Enhancing Medicine? (upcoming) 

Reading Religion:

Review of Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine by Andrew Davison (upcoming)

Zygon:

Theology and Science: 

Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith:  "The Christian Minds in the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis" (pending)

"A Centenary Retrospective on Joseph Needham's "Science, Religion and Reality" (undergoing revisions)

Reading Religion: Review of Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an - Reading Religion 

Review of The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion. By Cynthia R Wallace (upcoming)

ISCA: Review of The Sanity of Belief by Simon Edwards (pending)

Review of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God by Justin Brierley (pending)

Christians in Science: 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 Conversation:  Theory of everything: how a fear of failure is hampering physicists’ quest for the ultimate answer (theconversation.com)  

An AI tool for predicting protein shapes could be transformative for medicine, but it challenges science’s need for proof (theconversation.com) 

The five scholars who won two Nobel Prizes – and what sets them apart (theconversation.com) 

Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures on Earth – science is revealing new secrets about their size (theconversation.com) 

If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA (theconversation.com) 

The Freethinker:  Is ‘intelligent design’ on the cusp of overthrowing evolutionary science? - The Freethinker 

80 years on from Schrödinger's ‘What Is Life?’, philosophy of biology needs rescuing from radicals - 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 

The new faces of unbelief for Generation Z: the rise of the British social media atheists - The Freethinker

A farewell to Dawkins? - The Freethinker

"Reality is undefeated" (upcoming)

IaI:  Science and religion are not in conflict | Samuel McKee » IAI TV 

Schrödinger’s meaning of life | Samuel McKee » IAI TV 

How to make gene editing ethical | Samuel McKee » IAI TV 

"The Religious Minds Behind the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis" (upcoming)

Church Times:  Christians in the life sciences need a home (churchtimes.co.uk) 

 Scientists who were not afraid of belief (churchtimes.co.uk) 

"The Failure of the Scopes Monkey Trial a century on" (accepted, upcoming)

"What should Christians think about spacefaring?" (upcoming)

"The New Atheists disappear over the horizon" (upcoming)

The Catholic Herald: "Interview with Dr Simon Mitton on Catholicism, faith and science" (upcoming)

"A centenary retrospective on Msr Georges Lemaitre" (upcoming)

Medium: Find my selection of blog articles at  Samuel McKee – Medium