Tradition and Today: Religion and Science
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Continue reading →Cosmological and biological evolution reveal to the religious believer a God who made a universe that has within it through evolution a certain dynamism and thus participates in the very creativity of God.
Continue reading →Since chemical complexity and then life itself came about as part of the evolutionary history of the cosmos, it would be helpful to have an overview of that history.
Continue reading →Science is seen by the Church as a partner in dialogue. Although the encyclical, Fides et Ratio, is only indirectly concerned with the natural sciences, it welcomes further dialogue on the partnership of the sciences with philosophy and theology in the search for ultimate meaning, the true focus of the encyclical.
Continue reading →The Intelligent Design (ID) movement actually belittles God, makes her/him too small and paltry; while our scientific understanding of the universe, untainted by religious considerations, provides for those who believe in God a marvelous opportunity to reflect upon their beliefs.
Continue reading →Could the Galileo affair, interpreted with historical accuracy, provide an opportunity to come to understand the relationship of contemporary scientific culture and inherited religious culture?
Continue reading →The newest element in the new view from Rome is the expressed uncertainty as to where the dialogue between science and faith will lead.
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Continue reading →The relationship between religion and science has, in the course of three centuries, passed from one of conflict to one of compatible openness and dialogue.
Continue reading →Scientific evidence shows that evolution from the Big Bang to the human brain has been a continuous process of complexification where the passage from inorganic to organic to prebiotic to biotic to intelligent does not demonstrate clear scientific demarcations. This presents many challenges for theological thought, especially as regards the human being in relationship to the evolutionary process.
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