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Home: Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Moral Truth and the End of Man - Senator Rick SantorumIntellectual formation — building intellectual capital — is all about conforming our minds to the truth. But as I said at the start, truth and goodness go hand in hand. So we also have to talk about how morality fits into the formation of intellectual capital. To do that, please permit me to dig a little deeper into philosophy than is usual in a book on public policy. Read more... New Physics, New Theology - PATRICK GLYNNJohn Polkinghorne's Belief in God in an Age of Science, based on his Terry Lectures at Yale, explores the sweeping consequences of recent revolutions in science for the conflict between skepticism and faith. Read more... Nicolas Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy - Rev. Martin S. BrennanNicolas Copernicus (1473-1543), the founder of modern astronomy, was destined to become, through the publication of his heliocentric theory, one of the seminal figures in the history of scientific thought. Read more... Nicolaus Copernicus - Father George William RutlerFather Copernicus seems to have been so self-effacing that he was not considered well-known enough for a marked grave. He did not change the world as Christ did, but he changed the way the world is understood. Read more... Obama is no champion of science - Father Raymond de SouzaThe scientists were jubilant, as men are when dividing the spoils. Read more... Physics vs. metaphysics, knowledge vs. wisdom - Father Raymond J. de SouzaStephen Hawking, the biggest brain among the big brains of physics, took the star turn here for the recent World Science Festival. Read more... Prophet of Pointlessness—book review - STEPHEN M. BARRRichard Dawkins has been accused of spreading a cold and joyless message, a pessimistic nihilism and his latest book, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder, was written in response to these charges. But the book is based, in its entirety, on a simple mistake. Read more... Recovering Sight after Scientism - Edward FeserSeeing that scientism is unsustainable, we must embrace a return to philosophy. The second article in a two-part series. Read more... Retelling the Story of Science - Stephen M. BarrThe claims of scientific materialism have not changed substantially in over a hundred years. And yet much else has changed in that time. We know much more than we did about the origins of science; we know vastly more about nature. It is a good time, therefore, to take a fresh look at the materialist ideology of science and its story of science to see how well they have held up in the light of new knowledge. Read more... Rethinking Thinking - Raymond TallisWhile we are not angels fallen from heaven, we are not just neural machines. Nor are we merely exceptionally clever chimps. Read more... Science and faith were not enemies on Columbia - Fr. Raymond De SouzaThe remarkable thing is how unremarkable it is here. The "it" is the religious dimension of the Columbia tragedy and the importance of religious faith in the lives of the astronauts. The loss of the space shuttle is a major science story, but it was lived here as a spiritual trial. Science and faith were not enemies by those who flew Columbia. Read more... Science and Religion in Identity Crisis - STANLEY L. JAKIThree hundred or so years ago not a few scientists spoke of science and religion as united in a holy alliance. Two hundred years later theologians could do little about the warfare in which science and religion appeared to be locked forever. Read more... Science and the Demands of Virtue - Father Gregory JensenContrary to the popular understanding, the natural sciences are not morally neutral. Not only do the findings of science have moral implications, the actual work of scientific research presupposes that the researcher himself is a man of virtue. Read more... Science and the Story that we Need - NEIL POSTMANA serious spiritual problem confronting us in the technological age is that in having effectively solved the problem of information scarcity, we now find that we lack the transcendent narratives that would provide us with the moral guidance, social purpose, and intellectual economy necessary to tell us what we need to know, and especially what we do not need to know. Read more... Scientists are finding a friend in religion - Mark O'KeefeWhen Rick Husband, commander of the shuttle Columbia, looked out the window of his spacecraft, he saw what he called God's awe-inspiring creation. Crew member Michael Anderson, a physicist, believed that heaven, not space, was his final frontier. Read more... Scientist’s Challenge: Don’t Shout God Out of Research - BRIAN MCGUIREScientists gathered at a Sept. 25 conference took up an age-old challenge laid down by Charles Darwin. “If it could be demonstrated,” Darwin wrote, “that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” Read more... Something Beyond Nature - Charles ColsonTwo recent scientific experiments look like a real pain in the neck for materialists. Both experiments were simple, yet both had some thought-provoking results. Read more... Stanley Jaki and the Saviour of Science - Father George W. RutlerOn this day of the Summer Solstice, I think of how much I enjoy the calendar published by the Vatican Observatory, with beautiful photographs of the planets taken with its telescopes at its headquarters on the grounds of the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. Read more... Stem Cell Miracle? - Charles KrauthammerIt has just been demonstrated that stem cells with enormous potential can be harvested from amniotic fluid. This is a revolutionary finding. Read more... Study guide for Scopes Trial - Robin BernhoftIn the summer of 1925, a small town in Tennessee became a hub of intense international interest when famed defence lawyer Clarence Darrow squared off against progressive politician William Jennings Bryan over a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools. Here, in summary, are the often-distorted facts of the case. Read more... Survival of the fakest - Jonathan WellsScience now knows that many of the pillars of Darwinian theory are either false or misleading. Yet biology texts continue to present them as factual evidence of evolution. What does this imply about their scientific standards? Read more... Teach Evolution—And Ask Hard Questions - MICHAEL J. BEHEIn response to the recent Kansas Board of Education’s decision not to teach the Theory of Evolution, Michael Behe’s New York Times editorial argues that we should teach Darwin’s elegant theory, but also be willing to discuss where it has real problems accounting for the data and where scientists seem to be engaged in wishful thinking. Read more... The (Scientific) Case for God – book review - STEPHEN M. BARRGod: The Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World and"The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom"are reviewed here by Stephen M. Barr. Read more... The article Science Magazine doesn't want you to read - Peter A. LawrenceAn academic controversy recently erupted over the decision of Science Magazine editors to refuse publication of an article about gender difference by British biologist Peter Lawrence. Though the prestigious journal had given Dr. Lawrence a publication date and article proofs, Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy abruptly notified the author that the piece could not be published because it did not offer "a strategy on how to deal with the gender issue." The article, in edited form, is reproduced below. Read more... The ayatollah of atheism and Darwin’s altars - Paul JohnsonHow long will Darwin continue to repose on his high but perilous pedestal? I am beginning to wonder. Read more... Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:45
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