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Home: Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Permanent Limitations of Biology - Leon R. Kass, M.D.How far can biology take us? Are there limits on what it can know or on what it may enable us to do? Email This Article The Pope and the Apes - GEORGE SIM JOHNSTONThe Church has no problem with evolution so long as divine causality is not excluded. In October of 1996, Pope John Paul II delivered a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences regarding the theory of evolution. Email This Article The Pope's Astrophysicist - Margaret WertheimFor close to a quarter century George Coyne has been director and senior scientist at the Vatican Observatory, the Roman Catholic church's beachhead on the shore of astronomical research. A small and energetic man, Coyne is the son of a working class family who is still slightly dazzled to find himself at the epicenter of Catholic life. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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newspapers around the world published articles wrongly asserting that the Church had finally come around and withdrawn its opposition to the theory. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article There’s a Monk in the Courtroom - Charles ColsonTenzin Gyatso would probably be surprised to learn that he’s promoting “Christian creationism.” Email This Article 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? 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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