Welcome to the new Christians in Science online magazine! This is primarily a magazine written by students, for students, but we think that many other CiS members will appreciate it. This will be a quarterly publication, with a new theme for every issue.

Anyone can access this first issue for free, but for the next issue you will need your CiS membership code and password to access it, via our online membership system that is coming soon. More details to follow.

We have to thank a team of willing writers, mainly students, who came up with their own ideas, and submitted a great range of articles and reviews, as well as those who responded to some gentle arm twisting. We must also thank Maithrie White and Larissa Johnston, who helped with the editing.

We hope you enjoy it!

Ruth Bancewicz, Editor and Bekki Pearce, Assistant Editor

This issue's prize winning article
CiS is giving a £50 prize for the best student–written article in each issue. This issue's winner is Amy Unsworth, a PhD student from London, for her article Postmodernism – Post–Christian and Post–Science? Congratulations!

Thank you to CiS chair Prof John Bryant and freelance journalist Dr Pete Moore for judging. It was a close-run competition, and Amy wins on accumulated scores from both judges.

Writing
We'd love you to contribute to our next issue. Go to this page for details on how to contribute articles to the next issue. Non students are always welcome to contribute as guest authors.

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Contents

Editorial: Science and Society, by Ruth Bancewicz

News: Human–Animal Hybrid Embryos, by Ed Andrews

News: Creation and Politics – 2006 Roundup, by Alan Roberts

News: Dawkins and McGrath, by Ed Andrews

Film Review: An Inconvenient Truth, by Rob Hunt

Web Review: Science-Faith sites, by Pete Thorn

Book Review: The God Delusion, by Patrick Richmond

Book Review: The Dawkins Delusion, by Bekki Pearce

Column: Science and Society – Are you a citizen scientist?, by Rachel Bell
What are the opportunities being created by the government for scientists to get involved in ethical debate in the public area?

Feature: Science versus Religion: Fact or Fiction?, by Larissa Johnson
How does Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons deal with science and religion, and especially the case of Galileo? An opportunity to raise some important issues…

Feature: Postmodernism – Post–Christian and Post–Science?, by Amy Unsworth
Do scientists have something in common with Christians, when it comes to postmodernism?

Feature: The French genius that Gambled with God and saved the planet, by David Boyce
When it comes to climate change sceptics, can we apply Pascal's Wager to the environment?

Feature: Technology and Communication, by Isaac Thimbleby
Thinking about communications technology and how it affects the way we interact.

S&CB short: Fred Hoyle and the Big Bang, by Ruth Bancewicz
The debate over the origins of the universe. An unusual case of a scientific debate that was played out in the public arena instead of 'the academy'