Winter 2005

People will believe almost anything, it seems, despite the availability of credible and feasible alternatives.

Is The Da Vinci Code based on fact, or are its author’s claims of accuracy the novel’s greatest fiction?

Increasing numbers of DNA-based patents are being applied for on a daily basis. Vision examines some of the implications of the battle over who owns life.

Arguments in favor of life patenting.

Many believe that if living things can be patented, life is reduced to a mere commodity.

When a company gets a patent on a biological product, it has monopoly rights and can charge any price it wants for that product.

Many in the biotech industry say that patenting will boost research, while probably just as many think it will have an adverse effect.

How can life in all its varied forms be defined as a human creation for the purpose of granting patents when it is freely given as a gift from God?

Modern science may be coming face-to-face with the very circumstance that Darwin said would cause his famous theory to break down.

William Dembski, a proponent of intelligent design, talks with Vision publisher David Hulme and contributor John C. Anderson about issues facing the movement.

Vision publisher David Hulme interviews Charles A. Pasternak, a noted British biochemist and the founding director of the Oxford International Biomedical Centre.

A fisherman observes some of the intricacies of life as he matches wits with finicky fish. Can fly fishermen teach us a lesson on life?

As Jesus concludes His final Passover meal with the disciples, the peace in the upper room stands in stark contrast to the violence about to unfold outside.

How did a young Jewish slave foretell more than 2,500 years of world history?

After Constantine’s adoption of Roman Christianity in the fourth century C.E. the empire became viewed as the divine tool for Christianizing the world.

Vision speaks with cosmologist Sir Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, about the main threats facing humanity.

The Da Vinci Code—love it or hate it—has achieved the status of a phenomenon. Why should a novel generate such a torrent of debate?

Personally taught by the apostle John, Polycarp remained totally faithful to the teaching of the apostles.