by Deana L. Weibel
Monday, August 4, 2025
Earlier this summer, three NASA astronauts addressed a crowd at the Ark Encounter, a theme park devoted to biblical literalism. This article analyzes the event and what it reveals about public distrust of science and scientific authority…
I want to note here that my findings suggest science and religion are not fundamentally incompatible. In 2019, for instance, I spent a month conducting ethnographic fieldwork at the Vatican Observatory with the “Pope’s astronomers…”
