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Home: Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Privilege of Life on Earth - Benjamin D. WikerDo you think that our Earth is an ordinary planet? Do you think that we have a “commonplace” sun, and live in a run-of-the-mill solar system, in an unremarkable galaxy? If so, think again, advises astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez. Read more... The Quarrel the Evolutionists Started - Janine LanganFollowing Pope John Paul II's 1996 statement that the theory of evolution is “more than just a hypothesis,” newspapers around the world published articles wrongly asserting that the Church had finally come around and withdrawn its opposition to the theory. Read more... The Scopes Monkey Trial Revisited - Denyse O'LearyIn 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. The really interesting part this story is the difference between what actually happened and how the case was presented later, particularly in the stage play and movie, Inherit the Wind. Read more... The Staggering Implausibility of What Is - Donald DeMarcoAs astrophysicist Sir James Jeans has remarked, "The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." Read more... The Sun in the Church - J.L.HeilbronThe Catholic Church is portrayed as an institution that has been willing to impose the heavy hand of censorship to suppress scientific freedom. But nothing could be further from the truth. Beginning with the recovery of ancient learning in the twelfth century and continuing through the Copernican upheavals and on even into the Enlightenment, the Roman Catholic Church gave more financial and social support to the study of astronomy - Copernican and otherwise - than did any other institution. Read more... The truth about embryonic stem cell (ESC) therapies - Ryan T. AndersonThe truth about the technical challenges and scientific hurdles for embryonic stem-cell (ESC) therapies is finally getting out. Read more... There’s a Monk in the Courtroom - Charles ColsonTenzin Gyatso would probably be surprised to learn that he’s promoting “Christian creationism.” Read more... Use with CAUTION - Andrea MrozekPink ribbons are well and good. But why aren't people talking about the link between the pill and breast cancer? Read more... Vindicated - Donald DeMarcoThe courageous man who saw how faith gave birth to science. Read more... 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. Read more... 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." Read more... 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 Nothing Created Everything - Joe CarterI've decided to take the elements of materialism and shape them into a purportedly accurate, though mythic, narrative. This is what our culture has been missing for far too long – a creation story for young atheistic materialists. 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 Scientism is False - Deacon Douglas McManamanScientism is the view that the only real knowledge that human beings possess is scientific knowledge, that is, knowledge acquired through a method that is empiriometric. 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... Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:45
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