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Home: Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Vindicated - Donald DeMarcoThe courageous man who saw how faith gave birth to science. Email This Article What is Intelligent Design? - Stephen C. MeyerIn December 2004 New Mexico Public Television scheduled, advertised and then, under pressure, canceled a documentary explaining the scientific case for a theory of biological origins known as intelligent design. Email This Article What is Man that Thou are Mindful of Him?: Is man really the "crown of creation"? - Cardinal Christoph SchönbornIn its pastoral constitution, Gaudium et spes, Vatican II said, "Believers and unbelievers agree almost unanimously that all things on earth should be ordained to man as to their center and summit." Email This Article What is Science and How Open are Scientists to New Ideas? - Robin Bernhoft , M.D.We scientists are human beings, with the same foibles and temptations as anyone else. Old careers are destroyed by new theories. Prestige, position, power are all at stake every time there is a scientific revolution. When Lister described antiseptic surgery, his career was almost destroyed by the British medical establishment. The idea threatened too many people in positions of power. Email This Article What is Science? - LOUIS PASTEURPasteur, having been abruptly addressed by a colleague, who remarked that there were many yet unexplained facts in connection with fermentation, answered by thus apostrophizing his adversaries: “What is, then, your idea of the progress of Science? Email This Article What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells - Maureen L. CondicBack at the beginning of 2002, there was considerable optimism regarding the promise that embryonic stem cells were said to hold for millions of people suffering from fatal or debilitating medical conditions. Stem cells derived from human embryos, it was claimed, provided the best hope for relief of human suffering. Email This Article When Pigs Fly and Monkeys Type - Gerald SchroederStephen Hawking in his A Brief History Of Time taught the world that given enough time, monkeys hammering away on typewriters could type out a Shakespeare sonnet. Email This Article Why Catholics Like Einstein - George Sim JohnstonIt's difficult to say who turns themselves into the biggest pretzel: creationists trying to fit science into a biblical template, or agnostic scientists trying to avoid the existence of a personal God. An enlightened Catholic view of science must be anchored in the proposition that God delights to work through secondary causes. God concedes an enormous degree of causality to his creation, and we ought to be in awe as science explains more and more of it. At the same time, we ought to remind those who will listen to us that the universe will never finally explain itself. Email This Article Why Science Has No Competence to Speak about Philosophy and Theology of Things - Iain T. BensonOne of the strangest facts of contemporary life is the amount of energy continually being put into the so-called "science vs. religion" debate. Email This Article Ötzi’s violent world - National PostIn an odd way, as secular scientists explore our past with ever more powerful technologies, they seem to be finding the last thing they must have expected — empirical support for a variety of Original Sin. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 22-Apr-2008 - 09:45:02
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