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God and Evolution: Fundamental Questions of Christian Evolutionism |
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 “Archbishop Zycinski blends in a masterful way a concise history of the reactions to Darwinian evolution with his own evaluation of the influence of scientific evolution upon religious belief. As a renowned philosopher of science he has all of the credentials to carry out this very difficult project and he does so with great success. His treatise is an excellent example of how much can be accomplished by an intelligent dialogue among the cultures of science, philosophy and theology.” – George V. Coyne, S.J., Director of the Vatican Observatory
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Creation and Evolution: A Conference With Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo |
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 “Ultimately it comes down to the alternative: What came first? Creative Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, strangely enough brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason. The latter, however, would then be nothing more than a chance result of evolution and thus, in the end, equally meaningless. As Christians, we say: I believe in God the Father, the Creator of heaven and earth. I believe in the Creator Spirit. We believe that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason.” – Pope Benedict XVI
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Pope, During Visit to France, Will Try To Bridge Gap Between Faith, Reason |
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PARIS -- Since his election three years ago, Pope Benedict XVI has devoted considerable time and intellectual effort arguing that religious faith and reason can coexist in modern society.
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T.S. Eliot on Religion without Humanism |
By Edward T. Oakes, S.J.
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 10:09 AM
I recently needed to track down a reference in a long out-of-print anthology called Humanism and America: Essays on the Outlook of Modern Civilization, published back in 1930. Having got my citation, I was going to return the book when I caught sight, in the table of contents, of a contribution from T.S. Eliot called “Religion Without Humanism.”
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By Stephen Barr
Thursday, September 11, 2008, 8:05 AM
As many of you know, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) turned on yesterday in Geneva. So maybe I should say a little about it, since this is the kind of physics I do for a living. The LHC is a very big deal for physics. It is likely to make the first major breakthrough in particle physics in over thirty years.
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