Science
mea maxima culpa
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Last week, the Church of England issued an apology to Charles Darwin, 126 years after his death. Comparisons have been made to Pope John Paul II’s reconcilliatory admission of the erring of the Catholic church in its treatment of Galileo.
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La recherche de l’Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
At 9:15am this morning CERN, L’Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire,began tests with its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to discover more about the proposed, and broadly accepted, Big Bang Theory. According to Cern’s Director-General Robert Aymar: “Whatever discoveries it brings, mankind’s understanding of our world’s origins will be greatly enriched.” Such events as this one resurrect [...]
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“Science and religion need each other as guides in their search for truth”.
Friday, August 8th, 2008
I’ve been reading a discussion which followed Conor’s blog:‘Richard Dawkin’s and the Church’ and thought I might make available a paper I wrote on the issue not too long ago. It might be worth continuing this debate so hopefully this can add something to it.
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Richard Dawkins and the Church
Monday, October 1st, 2007
One of the frequent attacks that Dawkins levies against religion- in particular Christianity, the religion he was brought up in- is that it inhibits and stultifies intellectual progress. Certainly the Vatican has had a rather withering view of scientists for most of the past two hundred years and at times has proved slow to wake [...]
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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” - Albert Einstein
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Pope Benedict recently clarified the Church’s support for the use of adult stem-cells in medical research. In recent years the Church has been outspoken in its condemnation of embryonic stem-cell research and now scientists are faced with an obvious alternative. The Pope spoke clearly on the matter during his public audience on the 27th of [...]
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