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Paul Wallace is a science & religion teacher and writer. He is currently teaching physics at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga ("Where Berkeley meets Mayberry"). His interests are science and religion; physics and astronomy and their histories; and the Christian apophatic tradition. He holds a PhD in experimental nuclear physics from Duke University. For 10 years he was a professor of physics and astronomy at Berry College in Rome, Ga. In 2011 he received an MDiv with a concentration in historical theology from Emory University's Candler School of Theology. He has been a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, a faculty member for the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, a CDC lab technician, a stay-at-home dad, and a hospital chaplain. One of his favorite things is teaching science & religion classes at his church. Paul lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children. A regular contributor to Religion Dispatches, Paul blogs at psnt.net.

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Why I Teach Evolution in Church

1679 Comments | Posted February 5, 2012 | 02/05/12 10:02 PM ET

It was reported recently that author and entrepreneur Alain de Botton is building an "atheist temple" in London. The questions queue up quickly, do they not: How can he get away with calling it a temple? How do atheists feel about this? What is de Botton getting at?...

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Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective

539 Comments | Posted January 2, 2012 | 01/02/12 09:51 AM ET

Casey Luskin recently published a post titled "It's Time for Some Folks to Get Over Dover" at Evolution News and Views. It is a rehashing of some perceived problems with Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the 2005 case in which Intelligent Design (ID) was declared a form...

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How Atheism Can Help Christians Avoid False Idols

Posted December 2, 2011 | 12/02/11 12:51 PM ET

Last week in these pages, ink was spilled about a new campaign started by a group of enterprising college students. Dubbed "We Are Atheism," the campaign encourages those who are atheists to just come on out and say so. There is significant societal pressure to not come out,...

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