Science and Religion

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• Another Post about Evolution

  
  Thinking in a Marrow Bone — Authority:
  This site has been quiet for some time and it makes me wonder if we’ve stopped “thinking in a marrow bone.” I haven’t stopped thinking, but I’m not sure if I’m doing much thinking that’s worth anything. So instead, I’d like to issue a challenge and have you do the thinking for me: someone help me ...
  10 hours ago

• Close encounters of the religious kind

  
  A Thinking Reed — Authority: 495
  The Post had an article this morning on a conference being sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences on religious implications of the possible discovery of extra-terrestrial life. In principle, I’m not sure most the challenges posed by such a discovery would be all that different from ones ...
  2 days ago

• More Links. :o)

  
  New Life From Old — Authority: 113
  Two more links while I work away to meet a couple tight deadlines... Normal service will resume soon enough. Science and An Incarnational Approach to the Old Testament - A guest blog by Peter Enns over at Science and Christian Belief. Some Thoughts on Historians and Contemporary Anti-Evolutionism - An ...
  3 days ago

• Abrahams DNA

  
  avakesh — Authority: 121
  
  6 days ago

• Guest Post on Science and the Sacred on Dover

  
  Through a Glass Darkly — Authority: 415
  Here is my first guest post on Science and the Sacred on the Dover ID decision.
  1 week ago

• Links of Recent Note

  
  New Life From Old — Authority: 113
  On Feeling at Home in the Family - From Science and the Sacred Ron Numbers - Anti-evolution in America, from creation Science to Intelligent Design - from Pharyngula (not on my usual blog reading list, but a good article here). And the Average Colour of the Universe apparently.
  1 week ago

• Climate change debate spurs warm feelings in London

  
  UK News — Authority: 532
  It is rare that religion and science find agreement, but that is what happened when Britains Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks spoke at a meeting on saving the earth from climate change. "The great Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson published a book in 2007 called "Creation", subtitled An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," Sacks ...
  1 week ago

• Climate change debate spurs warm feelings in London

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 608
  It is rare that religion and science find agreement, but that is what happened when Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks spoke at a meeting on saving the earth from climate change. “The great Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson published a book in 2007 called “Creation”, subtitled An Appeal to Save Life on ...
  1 week ago

• The Church of the Big Bang

  
  Mormon Matters — Authority: 528
  I remember a remarkable conversation I once had with another Elder when I was a missionary.  He and I had been talking about the relationship between God and science, which was a notoriously hot topic in my mission.  Darwin is a dirty word in West Texas, and words like “radiometric dating” and “natural ...
  1 week ago

• Mixed messages

  
  Jeune Street — Authority: 118
  A recent study by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago finds that global patterns of religious change are not easy to explain: “With more modernization in general and with more education in particular, religious beliefs and behaviors across countries do tend to decline,” the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The House of Wisdom and the Legacy of Arabic Science

  
  Talking Virtually To Myself — Authority: 91
  *A summary of the lecture given by Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical nuclear physicist.**italics are my own takeThe lecture kicked off with the Prof. explaining what prompted his interest in the legacy of Arab science. Born in Baghdad to a Iraqi father and English mother he was raised in the UK, and when he got older ...
  2 weeks ago

• NEWS: Prophetess of Health reexamined

  
  Religion Compass Exchanges — Authority: 418
  Ellen G. White (1827-1915), co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist church, is the subject of a four-day conference concluding Sunday, October 25, 2009, in Portland, Maine. The conference is part of a larger Ellen White Project that will culminate in a book manuscript submitted to Oxford University Press. Sixty-five ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evolution: Descent with Modification

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 127
  The debate regarding whether the Theory of Evolution is compatible with Christian belief has been driven by those who are at the extremes of the possible positions.  I have followed this debate with varying degrees of interest, attempting to understand the nuances of the issues as well as the positions of the hard ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Makes Us Happy?

  
  Every Square Inch — Authority: 422
  Imagine if you could observe 250 individuals over the course of 70 years with insight into everything from what makes them mad to what shoe size they wear? The amount of information collected would be overwhelming. Just ask George Vaillant, he should know.Dr. Vaillant is concluding the longest running longitudinal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science

  
  MandM — Authority: 422
  This guest post was submitted by Dr James Hannam . Dr Hannam is a UK based historian with degrees in physics and history from the Universities of Oxford and London and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge. He blogs at Quodlibeta . The film adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barriers to Accepting Evolution Among Evangelical Theologians

  
  Through a Glass Darkly — Authority: 415
  Here is a fascinating report by Bruce Waltke about attitudes among evangelical theologians to biological evolution.  As Waltke reports, there does not appear to be a “typical” view among evangelical theologians — many are willing to accept evolutionary science in whole or in part.  The report was prepared in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Common Historical Myths About the Church

  
  MandM — Authority: 422
  This post is part update, part recycle. Earlier on in this blog’s life, I ran a small series of posts last year on common historical myths about the Church that  are so pervasive in society that most Christians fall for them. Anyway, after receiving some correspondance, I have updated this post, More on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Stupid, It Burns…Crunchy Con takes on Cosmology Edition

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 556
  I usually lie back and enjoy Roy Edoroso’s  Rod Dreher takedowns.  There are too many massive fails out there to deal with to write everytime something stupid this way comes.  Besides, Roy practically owns Mr. Crunchy at this point;  it is as if the Crunchster’s only reason for being is not, as he imagines, to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Truth and Meaning, Science and Theology

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 127
  In the Christian world there is much discussion about what the Scientific Theory of Evolution represents to theology:  a challenge, a denial, disproof of God, bad science, truth, or an alternative way of seeing the universe.  For my part having read a fair amount of literature on the topic I place myself in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Case for God

  
  Irenic Thoughts — Authority: 129
  If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. —Soren Kierkegaard At the online On Faith forum run by Newsweek and The Washington Post , Karen Armostrong asked the panelists: What makes the best case for God to a skeptic or non-believer, ...
  3 weeks ago

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