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CHURCH
Gaudium et Spes: Joy and Hope – The Church in the Modern World 43 Years Later
Gaudium et Spes: Joy and Hope - The Church in the Modern World 43 Years Later by Carla Mae Streeter, OP This article is taken from the ITEST 40th Anniversary Conference Proceedings - September 2008. It appears in the book, Faith-Science-Culture: A 40 Year...
Gaudium et Spes and Biological Advance
By Father Robert A. Brungs, SJ At the invitation of the editors of the Antonianum in 1995, Father Brungs wrote this article on the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of the encyclical. The ITEST editorial board decided to reprint this article because it still has...
Science and the Church: A Plea for Dialogue
Author: Archbishop Joseph M. Zycinski Article Abstract: This paper, presented in England at the 1998 PAX ROMANA CONFERENCE, contains encouragement for scientists and theologians alike to accept and take advantage of the opportunities “…for enriching dialogue between...
A Jesuit Scientist in a State University
Author: Fr. Augustin Udias, SJ Article Abstract: The author, a Jesuit priest, reflects on his role, indeed his "place" in the scientific community. Since science is an important influence in today's world, the field of the natural sciences seems to be the place where...
The Christian Notion of Freedom
Author: Fr. John Sheets, SJ Article Abstract: In this article, the late author, Jesuit Priest and Auxiliary Bishop, attempts to give a global description of the Christian meaning of freedom. Does the Christian notion of freedom differ from the merely “human” notion...
A Few Remarks on Gaudium et Spes and Science and Technology
Author: Lucien Morren, PhD Article Abstract: Professor Morren notes that Gaudium et Spes (1965) does not suffer from obsolescence. "Its influence, he writes, has been and continues to be important while the picture of our modern world and culture and the associated...
Science and Technology, Theology and the Church: Shall the Twain Meet?
Autor: Peggy Keilholz, MA, MSW Article Abstract: Are science-technology and theology-church irreconcilably separated? Can they be in harmony? Does it make any difference? The author notes that "our humanity is inherently bound to both freedom and responsibility."...
Excerpts from Fides et Ratio
Author: Pope John Paul II Article Abstract: In the introduction to his encyclical Pope John Paul II makes very clear his intention: “to draw attention to certain fundamental truths of Catholic doctrine which, in the present circumstances, risk being distorted or...
The Church & Scientists Synod ’77
Author: Delegation of the American Bishops Article Abstract: This article explores the relationship between the church and the scientific community. It takes up questions concerning the catechesis of scientists, the relationship between Christian and non-Christian...
EARTH SCIENCE
Consumption of Natural Resources
Author: Gregory W. Pouch, PhD Article Abstract: Using well reasoned arguments, the author, a geologist, refutes the Malthusian thesis of 1798 that “there is a fixed supply of material being consumed and that this amount imposes an absolute limit to growth.” Pointing...
Theologians Visit the Environment
Author: John E. Kinney, PE, DEE Article Abstract: In an article bound to raise hackles and provoke reaction, Kinney, an engineer and long-time advocate of better living for the people of Uganda, Central Africa and the Pacific Islands, takes theologians, the hierarchy,...
On the Relative Importance of Natural Versus Human-Induced Climate Changes
Author: Eric T. Karlstrom, PhD Article Abstract: The author with the department of Geography at Cal State asserts that"... climate probably exerts a more profound influence on human history and nonhuman ecosystems than any other single environmental factor."...
EDUCATION
Introduction to a Meeting of the Secretariat for Scientific Questions
Author: Peter Hodgson, PhD Article Abstract: The SIQS was responsible for arranging a meeting held in St. Albans, England on 24 September 1998 as part of the Pax Roman Conference that continued during the following three days. The theme of the day was “The Place of...
The Pax Romana Science Secretariat
Author: Peter Hodgson, PhD Article Abstract: Encouraging Catholic scientists to play their full part in the life of the Church, is the main role of the SIQS. In this article the author asks in different words what Father Robert Brungs, SJ often voiced, “Where are the...
The Carbon Dioxide Problem and You
Author: Jerry Hannan,PhD Doc. ID: HANNA001 Article Abstract: In this brief article the author states that people, emissions from cars, trucks, lawn mowers and use of herbicides are among the big contributors to CO2 in the atmosphere. See Eric Karlstrom's article in...
Neutrality? Alliance? or What?
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: The author comments on the book, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt (1994). Brungs proposes another model to consider in the science and faith...
Computing and Convergence: Bigger, Faster, Better?
Author: John Ashby, MA Article Abstract: Computing and Convergence: Institutional technology planning today often centers around an unspoken premise - Technology=Computers. Yet the forces of technological change in the digital era go far beyond the limited impact of...
On the Relative Importance of Natural Versus Human-Induced Climate Changes
Author: Eric T. Karlstrom, PhD Article Abstract: The author with the department of Geography at Cal State asserts that"... climate probably exerts a more profound influence on human history and nonhuman ecosystems than any other single environmental factor."...
A Jesuit Scientist in a State University
Author: Fr. Augustin Udias, SJ Article Abstract: The author, a Jesuit priest, reflects on his role, indeed his "place" in the scientific community. Since science is an important influence in today's world, the field of the natural sciences seems to be the place where...
Excerpts from Fides et Ratio
Author: Pope John Paul II Article Abstract: In the introduction to his encyclical Pope John Paul II makes very clear his intention: “to draw attention to certain fundamental truths of Catholic doctrine which, in the present circumstances, risk being distorted or...
FAITH AND SCIENCE
A Communication from Fr. William A. Wallace
Author: Fr. William A. Wallace, OP Article Abstract: The author updates the article above in light of the 1992 report of the Galileo Commission and Pope John Paul II’s address when presenting its results to the members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Download...
Religion and Science: Must There Be Conflict
Author: Fr. William A. Wallace, OP Article Abstract: Wallace cites examples of the early Fathers of the Church to show "...that a premature divorce between reason and faith could do more to hurt Christian apologetics than the attempt to promote a marriage between...
Daddy, Why Do Angels Have Wings?
Author: Thomas P. Sheahen, PhD Article Abstract: This question, posed with a Christmastime flavor, leads into an explanation of the importance of images when discussing spiritual concepts that do not directly connect to our customary ways of thinking and speaking....
What is our Agenda in the Faith/Science Area?
Author: Fr. Joop Schopman, PhD Article Abstract: Given the Laplacian contention that the world around us can be understood (and our lives can be lived) without a God, and that secularization (of religion) is often interpreted as the natural outcome of the process...
Toward a Post-Modern Paradigm and the Collaboration of Science and Religion
Author: E. Rita Poto Article Abstract: A summary of a longer paper. Ms Poto looks at the "moral problems of modernity....I would say that the morality or immorality of a culture does not arise in a vacuum, but is a reflection of its ethos....The culture of modernity...
Response to Paper by Dr. Rudy Brun
Author: Lucien Morren, PhD Article Abstract: The author takes issue with the perceived thesis of Brun’s that an updating of the Christian Theology of Nature necessitates the systematic rejection of God’s action in the case of humankind. Morren lists and describes four...
Reflections on the Missions of a Catholic Scientist
Author: Lucien Morren, PhD Article Abstract: The author, a professor emeritus of engineering at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, states at the outset that Catholic scientists are no different from any other Christian in the responsibility and privilege of...
Two Modes of Thought: Science and Religion
Author: Fr. Donald P. Merrifield, SJ Article Abstract: Although a member of the administration at Loyola Marymount University, Fr. Merrifield has not lost interest in faith/science. Biology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology have always attracted him more than...
The Science/Religion Dialogue – A Catholic Perspective
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: Professor Kracher of Iowa State University, in Part Two of this report, on a recent European Conference on Science and Theology, offers his reflections on the role of Catholic thought in the science/religion dialog in...
Science Meets Theology in Cracow, Poland
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: The increasingly common practice of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis risks fostering in society a eugenic type of mentality. While a distinction must be made between compulsory, state organized, eugenics and...
Faith, Science and Sacramental Realism
Author: Fr. Donald J. Keefe, SJ Article Abstract: In this essay it is argued that it is only sacramental realism, and specifically the realism proper to the Eucharistic sacrifice, that permits the optimism characterizing the experimental sciences, and underlying their...
The Starry Messenger
Author: The Most Reverend Pierre DuMaine Article Abstract: The article originally appeared as a Christmas message in the diocesan newspaper, The Valley Catholic, from the then Bishop of San Jose to the people of his diocese. Using the “Star of Bethlehem” representing...
Creation and Evolution: A Brief Critique (With a response from Dr. Behe)
Author: Robert J. Doyle, PhD Article Abstract: The author, a professor emeritus of biology at the university of Windsor, takes issue with Michael Behe’s essay from the proceedings in which Behe argues that the concept of “irreducible complexity” implies “design.”...
The Faith of a Neurologist
Author: Danielle Darriet, MD, PhD Article Abstract: Dr. Danielle Darriet, a neurologist, relates her experiences in dealing with brain damaged patients in a rehabilitation hospital in northern France. Darriet who left her position of medical research, now serves as...
A Very, Very Modest Proposal
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: In this article, written during the last year of the 20th century, the author extends a challenge not only to ITEST members, but to all readers. Brungs strongly advises a specific set of proposals – but perhaps the...
The Theological Task
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: “The base of any Christian theology is belief in a person, Jesus Christ, and a response to him on the personal level.” Fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) – with these words the author sets the...
Some Thoughts on the Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: The author of this article, a believer and a scientist, states at the outset that this is not a review, rather it is a “treatment” of the ideas contained in this rather lengthy volume by noted author and non-believer,...
Some Elements of the Faith/Science Apostolate
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: The author reflects on his 30 years of active involvement in the faith/science apostolate, stating that in the beginning he was convinced that "the real problem was the Church's lack of knowledge and concern about...
A Word From Our Creator: A Communicator’s Look at Nature and Nature’s God
Author: Fr. Bert Akers, SJ Article Abstract: The Secular world is strangely touchy about the topic of Creation, notes the author. The greater the achievements of Science, the more Nature reveals a breathtaking "given-ness", threatening the complacency of the past four...
Neutrality? Alliance? or What?
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: The author comments on the book, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt (1994). Brungs proposes another model to consider in the science and faith...
LAW
Patenting of Biological Materials
Doc. ID: SALIW001 Article Abstract: In this article the author, a practicing patent attorney in Florida, seeks to allay the fears of those who are concerned about the patenting of “biological materials” by clearly stating “a summary of the relevant principles of the...
Neutrality? Alliance? or What?
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: The author comments on the book, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt (1994). Brungs proposes another model to consider in the science and faith...
LIFE SCIENCE
Brain Machine Interfaces as Commodities: Exchanging Mind for Matter
Author: Chris Reilly, MA, MPIA Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), also referred to as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), are electronic devices that enable detection of activity in the brain or nervous system, direct the operation of computerized machines or devices, and...
Human Genome Editing – A Catholic Perspective
Author: Fr. Kevin FitzGerald, SJ Once again, news of the promise and peril of human genetic and genomic medicine is before the public, in particular, advances in genome editing. Considering the global attention genetic knowledge and possible treatments have received...
Excerpts from the 1994 Science and Politics of Food Authors: Various authors from the Science and Politics of Food
Authors: Various authors from the Science and Politics of Food Article Abstract: The following three excerpts are taken from the 1994 ITEST workshop. These represent exchanges among scientists, academicians and professionals in industry. Each section has an...
Anthropology and Ecoethics
Author: Fr. Jean Kitahara-Frisch, SJ Article Abstract: Although seeing man as unique had been criticized as a form of speciesism responsible for our ecological crisis, it is argued here that a recognition of human uniqueness forms the necessary foundation for...
Excerpt from Evolution AND Creation
Author: S. Joan Gormley, PhD Article Abstract: This short excerpt is part of a longer essay written for the ITEST conference on Creation AND Evolution. The foreword and table of contents of the book may be found on this web site under books. In her article the author...
Contemporary Biotechnology in the Context of Conflicting Theological Perspectives
Author: Donald DeMarco, PhD Article Abstract: "The temptation to be like God is at the root of the ethical dilemmas that contemporary biotechnology poses, particularly that branch of biotechnology that has the power to alter man in a radical way." The author looks at...
Genes, Evolution, and the Word of God in Creation
Author: Rudolf Brun, PhD Article Abstract: In this article the author treats “… the mechanisms that increase genetic complexity in evolution”; then he ponders the question “…whether evolution is goal-oriented.” Finally he attempts “…to update the Christian theology of...
Science Versus Religion: A Conflict of Ideas or a Clash of Wills
Author: Richard J. Blackwell, PhD Article Abstract: Although there are many instances evident throughout the centuries – especially since the Period of Enlightenme – of conflict between religion and science, the author, Professor emeritus, St Louis University, while...
Creation and Evolution: A Brief Critique (With a response from Dr. Behe)
Author: Robert J. Doyle, PhD Article Abstract: The author, a professor emeritus of biology at the university of Windsor, takes issue with Michael Behe’s essay from the proceedings in which Behe argues that the concept of “irreducible complexity” implies “design.”...
A Very, Very Modest Proposal
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: In this article, written during the last year of the 20th century, the author extends a challenge not only to ITEST members, but to all readers. Brungs strongly advises a specific set of proposals – but perhaps the...
MORALITY
ITEST COVID Religious Exemption Resource
This article may be used with attribution of its author, Dr. Mary Anne Urlakis, and ITEST. ITEST COVID Religious Exemption Resource
China Weaponizes Global Trade to Become a Colonial Empire
Edward J. O’Boyle PhD Mayo Research Institute www.mayoresearch.org edoboyle737@gmail.com Will the extreme volatility of U.S. equity markets, the massive declines in production and employment, and the large and growing numbers of deaths here and around the world, all...
Eugenics and Assisted Reproduction Technology
Author: Fr. Jean Kitahara-Frisch, SJ Article Abstract: The increasingly common practice of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis risks fostering in society a eugenic type of mentality. While a distinction must be made between compulsory, state organized,...
Some (Unedited) Reflections on the October 25-27, 1996 Meeting – “Patenting of Biological Materials”
Author: David Byers, PhD Article Abstract: After noting the differences between patent, copyright and trademarks, Dr. Byers establishes some common ground at the end of an ITEST workshop on Patenting of Biologicals. Biotechnology is as likely to confer great power for...
Kyoto and Population Control
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: Although written during the years of the Clinton administration, this article and commentary strikes a familiar note today – the hidden issue, for example, of population control as a prerequisite for averting the...
Hybrids, Genes and Patents
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: A commentary on the 1995 petition (signed by many church and religious leaders) to "oppose the patenting of human and animal life forms...We (the church leaders) believe that humans and animals are creations of God,...
The Worldview of Genesis 1-11
Author: Rev. Hubert Beck Article Abstract: The author, a Lutheran Pastor and Campus Minister, examines the first eleven chapters of Genesis, recounting how they set the stage for the universal world view of God’s relationship with creation in a “covenantal” bond. This...
The Vision of Man
Author: Elmer J. F. Arndt, PHD Article Abstract: What is man? What is man’s destiny? These are questions the author discusses in this article. While admitting the many and diverse “understandings” of man, the author focuses on the distinctive traits evident in the...
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
A Time-Dependent God?
Author: Thomas P. Sheahen, PhD Article Abstract: Imagine, if you will, a meeting of two “time-dependent” gods! We know that God is not bound by time, in fact the concept of time has no relevance to an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God. But what would happen if...
On the Elimination of Human Freedom
Author: Fr. James Schall, SJ Article Abstract: Could human freedom ever be eliminated from the human condition; not at the hands of brutal dictators but from within the very center of the human being himself? Fr. Schall studies this phenomenon from an historical...
ITEST for the Future: Science, Philosophy, Theology
Author: Eric A. Reitan, PhD Article Abstract: Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and teacher of seminarians writes how his scientific curiosity, the desire to understand the world of nature led him from a stand of avowed atheism to acknowledge the existence of...
Reflections on the Natural and the Supernatural in Man
Author: Lucien Morren, PhD Article Abstract: The author probes the question of "natural" and "supernatural" applied to the human. "Thus, the anthropology that one might consider as the official one in the Catholic Church is bipartite; man is a unity with a body and a...
European Society for the Study of Science and Theology in Durham
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: The ESSSAT held its 1998 conference, seventh in the series, in the ancient city of Durham in Northern England. About 160 participants from 27 countries met in St. John’s College to discuss this year’s topic: The...
Sociobiology: The New Religion
Author: Richard J. Blackwell, PhD Article Abstract: Blackwell provides an insightful analysis of E.O. Wilson's view of man in his trilogy on sociobiology. Rejecting a purely environmental model of the causes of human behavior, "... Wilson's writings make it clear...
Who’s Counting
Author: Fr. Bert Akers, SJ Article Abstract: In this imaginative article the author almost playfully leads the reader through a series of juxtapositions in Western civilization’s fascination with quantity and number. Akers shows that, scientists, philosophers and...
Hybrids, Genes and Patents
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: A commentary on the 1995 petition (signed by many church and religious leaders) to "oppose the patenting of human and animal life forms...We (the church leaders) believe that humans and animals are creations of God,...
The Vision of Man
Author: Elmer J. F. Arndt, PHD Article Abstract: What is man? What is man’s destiny? These are questions the author discusses in this article. While admitting the many and diverse “understandings” of man, the author focuses on the distinctive traits evident in the...
Excerpt from Evolution AND Creation
Author: S. Joan Gormley, PhD Article Abstract: This short excerpt is part of a longer essay written for the ITEST conference on Creation AND Evolution. The foreword and table of contents of the book may be found on this web site under books. In her article the author...
Contemporary Biotechnology in the Context of Conflicting Theological Perspectives
Author: Donald DeMarco, PhD Article Abstract: "The temptation to be like God is at the root of the ethical dilemmas that contemporary biotechnology poses, particularly that branch of biotechnology that has the power to alter man in a radical way." The author looks at...
Genes, Evolution, and the Word of God in Creation
Author: Rudolf Brun, PhD Article Abstract: In this article the author treats “… the mechanisms that increase genetic complexity in evolution”; then he ponders the question “…whether evolution is goal-oriented.” Finally he attempts “…to update the Christian theology of...
Science Versus Religion: A Conflict of Ideas or a Clash of Wills
Author: Richard J. Blackwell, PhD Article Abstract: Although there are many instances evident throughout the centuries – especially since the Period of Enlightenme – of conflict between religion and science, the author, Professor emeritus, St Louis University, while...
The Science/Religion Dialogue – A Catholic Perspective
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: Professor Kracher of Iowa State University, in Part Two of this report, on a recent European Conference on Science and Theology, offers his reflections on the role of Catholic thought in the science/religion dialog in...
Science Meets Theology in Cracow, Poland
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: The increasingly common practice of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis risks fostering in society a eugenic type of mentality. While a distinction must be made between compulsory, state organized, eugenics and...
The Theological Task
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: “The base of any Christian theology is belief in a person, Jesus Christ, and a response to him on the personal level.” Fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) – with these words the author sets the...
A Word From Our Creator: A Communicator’s Look at Nature and Nature’s God
Author: Fr. Bert Akers, SJ Article Abstract: The Secular world is strangely touchy about the topic of Creation, notes the author. The greater the achievements of Science, the more Nature reveals a breathtaking "given-ness", threatening the complacency of the past four...
Theologians Visit the Environment
Author: John E. Kinney, PE, DEE Article Abstract: In an article bound to raise hackles and provoke reaction, Kinney, an engineer and long-time advocate of better living for the people of Uganda, Central Africa and the Pacific Islands, takes theologians, the hierarchy,...
Science and the Church: A Plea for Dialogue
Author: Archbishop Joseph M. Zycinski Article Abstract: This paper, presented in England at the 1998 PAX ROMANA CONFERENCE, contains encouragement for scientists and theologians alike to accept and take advantage of the opportunities “…for enriching dialogue between...
The Christian Notion of Freedom
Author: Fr. John Sheets, SJ Article Abstract: In this article, the late author, Jesuit Priest and Auxiliary Bishop, attempts to give a global description of the Christian meaning of freedom. Does the Christian notion of freedom differ from the merely “human” notion...
Science and Technology, Theology and the Church: Shall the Twain Meet?
Autor: Peggy Keilholz, MA, MSW Article Abstract: Are science-technology and theology-church irreconcilably separated? Can they be in harmony? Does it make any difference? The author notes that "our humanity is inherently bound to both freedom and responsibility."...
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Your Role in the “Greenhouse Effect”
Author: Jerry Hannan, PhD Article Abstract: Jerry Hannan now retired from the Naval Research Labs in Washington, DC spends roughly 30 hours a week at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The following article is drawn from one of his many lectures delivered...
The Carbon Dioxide Problem and You
Author: Jerry Hannan,PhD Doc. ID: HANNA001 Article Abstract: In this brief article the author states that people, emissions from cars, trucks, lawn mowers and use of herbicides are among the big contributors to CO2 in the atmosphere. See Eric Karlstrom's article in...
Theologians Visit the Environment
Author: John E. Kinney, PE, DEE Article Abstract: In an article bound to raise hackles and provoke reaction, Kinney, an engineer and long-time advocate of better living for the people of Uganda, Central Africa and the Pacific Islands, takes theologians, the hierarchy,...
PUBLIC POLICY
On the Domestication of Science
Author: John Matschiner, PhD Article Abstract: *This use of the expression, the domestication of science was inspired by Fr. Donald J. Keefe’s expression on “the domestication of worship.” It is interesting to speculate how this may be an expression -- more than that,...
A Taste of the October Workshop on the Future of the Family/The Family of the Future
Author: Peggy Keilholz, MA, MSW Article Abstract: This short excerpt is part of a longer essay written for the ITEST conference on The Family of the future: The Future of the Family. The foreword and table of contents of the book may be found on the ITEST web site...
Environmental Crisis — International Justice
Author: Charles Elliott, PhD Article Abstract: That there are finite limits to the Earth’s carrying capacity seemed self-evident to this author, a respected world economist, as far back as 1972. He points out though that, “To the Third World,” (or as we would say...
Radiation and Social Ethics
Author: Fr. Thomas Cullen, SJ Article Abstract: An excerpt from a paper of the late Father Cullen dealing with the ethical obligation of the scientific community to inform and educate the public in general on what is happening in science. In this paper originally...
The Pax Romana Science Secretariat
Author: Peter Hodgson, PhD Article Abstract: Encouraging Catholic scientists to play their full part in the life of the Church, is the main role of the SIQS. In this article the author asks in different words what Father Robert Brungs, SJ often voiced, “Where are the...
RELIGION
Science Versus Religion: A Conflict of Ideas or a Clash of Wills
Author: Richard J. Blackwell, PhD Article Abstract: Although there are many instances evident throughout the centuries – especially since the Period of Enlightenme – of conflict between religion and science, the author, Professor emeritus, St Louis University, while...
Religion and Science: Must There Be Conflict
Author: Fr. William A. Wallace, OP Article Abstract: Wallace cites examples of the early Fathers of the Church to show "...that a premature divorce between reason and faith could do more to hurt Christian apologetics than the attempt to promote a marriage between...
Daddy, Why Do Angels Have Wings?
Author: Thomas P. Sheahen, PhD Article Abstract: This question, posed with a Christmastime flavor, leads into an explanation of the importance of images when discussing spiritual concepts that do not directly connect to our customary ways of thinking and speaking....
Toward a Post-Modern Paradigm and the Collaboration of Science and Religion
Author: E. Rita Poto Article Abstract: A summary of a longer paper. Ms Poto looks at the "moral problems of modernity....I would say that the morality or immorality of a culture does not arise in a vacuum, but is a reflection of its ethos....The culture of modernity...
Two Modes of Thought: Science and Religion
Author: Fr. Donald P. Merrifield, SJ Article Abstract: Although a member of the administration at Loyola Marymount University, Fr. Merrifield has not lost interest in faith/science. Biology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology have always attracted him more than...
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science and Technology in Cloning — From Sheep to Humans: What Are the Possibilities of Human Cloning?
Author: Robert J. Collier, PhD Article Abstract: In this article, first delivered as a lecture at Tulane University and then to the clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska in 1998, the author deals with the pace of...
The Vineyard – Excerpts from Chapter 2 – Technology
Author: S. Eva Maria Amrhein, PhD Article Abstract: The author, a physicist and a native of Germany is interested in serving the mission of the church by enabling faith and science to meet and unfold their full potential within the person of the scientist. This...
Scientific Misconduct at the New York Times: Distorting Routine Science to Sell Newspapers
Author: Thomas P. Sheahen, PhD Article Abstract: At the point where Congressional approval of the Yucca Mountain repository site for Nuclear Waste was essentially assured of passage, the New York Times trumped up a story based on a previously-discredited report. The...
On the Domestication of Science
Author: John Matschiner, PhD Article Abstract: *This use of the expression, the domestication of science was inspired by Fr. Donald J. Keefe’s expression on “the domestication of worship.” It is interesting to speculate how this may be an expression -- more than that,...
Environmental Crisis — International Justice
Author: Charles Elliott, PhD Article Abstract: That there are finite limits to the Earth’s carrying capacity seemed self-evident to this author, a respected world economist, as far back as 1972. He points out though that, “To the Third World,” (or as we would say...
Your Role in the “Greenhouse Effect”
Author: Jerry Hannan, PhD Article Abstract: Jerry Hannan now retired from the Naval Research Labs in Washington, DC spends roughly 30 hours a week at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The following article is drawn from one of his many lectures delivered...
ITEST for the Future: Science, Philosophy, Theology
Author: Eric A. Reitan, PhD Article Abstract: Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and teacher of seminarians writes how his scientific curiosity, the desire to understand the world of nature led him from a stand of avowed atheism to acknowledge the existence of...
European Society for the Study of Science and Theology in Durham
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: The ESSSAT held its 1998 conference, seventh in the series, in the ancient city of Durham in Northern England. About 160 participants from 27 countries met in St. John’s College to discuss this year’s topic: The...
Kyoto and Population Control
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: Although written during the years of the Clinton administration, this article and commentary strikes a familiar note today – the hidden issue, for example, of population control as a prerequisite for averting the...
Hybrids, Genes and Patents
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: A commentary on the 1995 petition (signed by many church and religious leaders) to "oppose the patenting of human and animal life forms...We (the church leaders) believe that humans and animals are creations of God,...
Excerpts from the 1994 Science and Politics of Food Authors: Various authors from the Science and Politics of Food
Authors: Various authors from the Science and Politics of Food Article Abstract: The following three excerpts are taken from the 1994 ITEST workshop. These represent exchanges among scientists, academicians and professionals in industry. Each section has an...
Contemporary Biotechnology in the Context of Conflicting Theological Perspectives
Author: Donald DeMarco, PhD Article Abstract: "The temptation to be like God is at the root of the ethical dilemmas that contemporary biotechnology poses, particularly that branch of biotechnology that has the power to alter man in a radical way." The author looks at...
Religion and Science: Must There Be Conflict
Author: Fr. William A. Wallace, OP Article Abstract: Wallace cites examples of the early Fathers of the Church to show "...that a premature divorce between reason and faith could do more to hurt Christian apologetics than the attempt to promote a marriage between...
The Science/Religion Dialogue – A Catholic Perspective
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: Professor Kracher of Iowa State University, in Part Two of this report, on a recent European Conference on Science and Theology, offers his reflections on the role of Catholic thought in the science/religion dialog in...
Science Meets Theology in Cracow, Poland
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: The increasingly common practice of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis risks fostering in society a eugenic type of mentality. While a distinction must be made between compulsory, state organized, eugenics and...
The Faith of a Neurologist
Author: Danielle Darriet, MD, PhD Article Abstract: Dr. Danielle Darriet, a neurologist, relates her experiences in dealing with brain damaged patients in a rehabilitation hospital in northern France. Darriet who left her position of medical research, now serves as...
Some Thoughts on the Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: The author of this article, a believer and a scientist, states at the outset that this is not a review, rather it is a “treatment” of the ideas contained in this rather lengthy volume by noted author and non-believer,...
Introduction to a Meeting of the Secretariat for Scientific Questions
Author: Peter Hodgson, PhD Article Abstract: The SIQS was responsible for arranging a meeting held in St. Albans, England on 24 September 1998 as part of the Pax Roman Conference that continued during the following three days. The theme of the day was “The Place of...
Neutrality? Alliance? or What?
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: The author comments on the book, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt (1994). Brungs proposes another model to consider in the science and faith...
Computing and Convergence: Bigger, Faster, Better?
Author: John Ashby, MA Article Abstract: Computing and Convergence: Institutional technology planning today often centers around an unspoken premise - Technology=Computers. Yet the forces of technological change in the digital era go far beyond the limited impact of...
Consumption of Natural Resources
Author: Gregory W. Pouch, PhD Article Abstract: Using well reasoned arguments, the author, a geologist, refutes the Malthusian thesis of 1798 that “there is a fixed supply of material being consumed and that this amount imposes an absolute limit to growth.” Pointing...
A Few Remarks on Gaudium et Spes and Science and Technology
Author: Lucien Morren, PhD Article Abstract: Professor Morren notes that Gaudium et Spes (1965) does not suffer from obsolescence. "Its influence, he writes, has been and continues to be important while the picture of our modern world and culture and the associated...
Science and Technology, Theology and the Church: Shall the Twain Meet?
Autor: Peggy Keilholz, MA, MSW Article Abstract: Are science-technology and theology-church irreconcilably separated? Can they be in harmony? Does it make any difference? The author notes that "our humanity is inherently bound to both freedom and responsibility."...
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