In 1644, the French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes formulated several “laws of nature,” which helped lay the groundwork for classical physics and the Scientific Revolution.
“Mr. D, how can you be religious if you are a physics teacher? Can’t you not be religious and scientific at the same time?” As a high school physics teacher, my students already know that I love ...
Discover how modern scientific evidence points to a Creator God. God, the Science, the Evidence explores 12 fields of ...
Here’s one for the annals of unpredictable history: the most googled, streamed, STEMmed-up generation is also the one ...
THIS book is an able study of the various attempts which have been made since the beginning of the great scientific movement of the nineteenth century to comprehend science and religion in one system.
(The Conversation) — Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today. In fact, Pascal’s influence in ...
Since science defines death as final, it is then within the purview of theology and philosophy to come to an understanding of what happens prior to death and postmortem. After all, we don’t stop to ...
Richard P. Sloan makes a distinction that is too hard to be helpful: “Religion and science,” he says, “are independent approaches to knowledge ... with the former relying on faith as a source of ...
In his 2015 book Faith versus Fact, the biologist and polemicist Jerry Coyne launched one of his many attacks on religion in the name of science: science and religion, he wrote, are “incompatible in ...
Tom McLeish receives funding from EPSRC, AHRC (UK) and the Templeton World Charities Foundation. He is a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation, and Chair of the Education Committee of the Royal ...
Leon R. Kass, M.D. Let me first restate the gist of my long, complicated, and yet very incomplete argument concerning the state of the age-old tension between modern science and biblical religion. I ...