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PHILIP BALL | Science is often not a competition between theories but a process of narrative creation in which the paradigm tends to be set by the most persuasive narrative

Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale Divinity School

In this episode, we share a conversation between our Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Samuel Loncar, philosopher and scholar of religion, and Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, the Kraft Family Professor and Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College.

Part Two of Marginalia's conversation with Adler begins our symposium on his new book, "The Orgins of Judaism" (Yale University Press).

Part One of Marginalia's conversation with Adler begins our symposium on his new book, "The Orgins of Judaism" (Yale University Press).

SIR PAUL NURSE | Human beings like things to be ordered. That's how we are. But maybe cells and living things are more sloppy. Perhaps the cell has to be sloppy to avoid, as I said, getting stuck...

If we're going to reject these phenomena, then we need to do it on the grounds of having seriously considered and weighed the evidence. We can't just dismiss them because they don't fit our worldview...

AMIT MAJMUDAR | What I seek to do is s to build on Steiner's legacy, because the reverence and memory that he showed for the Western tradition is what I hope to show for as many traditions as I can incorporate.

CARLOS EIRE & PETER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...

AMIT MAJMUDAR | The Gita is so infinite because it's one of the few—or only, to my knowledge—religious texts that takes as a given the idea that human beings all have different temperaments and that different things are true to different people, and it builds from there several different pathways to the divine.

SIR PAUL NURSE | Life is something that is able to self-assemble into a whole, behaving object. And that's what a cell is, too...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .