Publications
Biology
"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, Spring 2025)
"The challenge of DNA double strand breaks for long term spaceflight" (pending)
"From AlphaFold to Astronauts: Implications of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology for the Space Age" (pending)
History and Philosophy of Science
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 hall of fame astronaut Dr Michael Foale" (accepted, 2025)
"EVA strategies for tile damage on STS-114 following the Columbia disaster" (pending)
"Fuel cell failure and the abort of STS-83" (pending)
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)
Philosophy
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 “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: "The Religious Epistemology of Sir Arthur Eddington" (pending)
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
"In defense of human gene editing" (accepted, 2025)
"The Three-Tier problem for Science and Religion at the popular and research levels" (accepted, 2025)
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/
Response to Andrew Sloane on Enhancing Medicine? (accepted, 2025)
"The Christian Minds in the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis" (accepted, 2025)
Review of Michael Ruse: Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution – The ISCAST Journal
"A Centenary Retrospective on Joseph Needham's "Science, Religion and Reality" (accepted, 2025)
Zygon: "Eddington: A Complex Legacy" (upcoming)
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
Popular articles
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)
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
Interview with Julian Baggini (upcoming)
Interview with Dave Farina (upcoming)
Centenary retrospective of the Scopes Monkey Trial (pending)
The Ghosts of Scopes (pending)
Why all design arguments necessarily fail (pending)
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
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)
"The New Atheists disappear over the horizon" (upcoming)
The Catholic Herald: A centenary retrospective on Georges Lemaitre (upcoming)
Medium: Find my selection of blog articles at Samuel McKee – Medium