Finding Out The Truth of Things

About

My Work

Melissa Cain Travis earned a Ph.D. in Humanities with a Philosophy concentration from Faulkner University, where her dissertation research focused on the natural philosophy and natural theology of Johannes Kepler. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Science and Religion from Biola University and a Bachelor of Science in general biology from Campbell University. She serves as a Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, where she teaches adult education courses on a variety of topics in science, faith, and philosophy.

Melissa is the author of Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility (2022), Science and the Mind of the Maker: What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals About God (2018), and contributed a chapter to The Story of the Cosmos (2019). She has several publications forthcoming.

Melissa’s current major research project is a philosophical exploration of meaning-of-life theories and how they relate to the emerging field known as the science of human happiness.

Due to teaching and writing demands, Dr. Travis accepts only a limited number of speaking invitations each year. Her lecture topics include:

  • Cosmic Graveyards and Noble Lies: The Madness of Scientific Materialism
  • Crushing the Copernican Cliche: A World Just Right for Life and Discovery
  • Contemplating the Heavens: How the Beauty and Harmony of Creation Led to Modern Science
  • Kepler’s Liturgy, Einstein’s Miracle: Theistic Implications of Cosmic Comprehensibility
  • Tapping into the Transcendent: How Human Reason Undercuts Naturalism
  • Here There Be Dragons: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Art of Imaginative Apologetics
  • Universe by Design: Cosmic Fine Tuning and the Existence of God
  • Big Bang Cosmology: Friend or Foe?
  • Mere Creation: Intelligent Design as a Unifying Perspective on the Origin and Nature of Life
  • Matters of Origins: Exploring the Creation Model Spectrum
  • Spiritual Formation Through Immersion in Scripture

 

 

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