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Home: Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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? Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... Why Us? - Francis PhillipsWe share 98% of our genes with chimpanzees. Why does that piddling 2% make us so different? Read more... 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. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 09-Nov-2009 - 15:51:54
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