by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Philosophy and Theology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Morality, Philosophy and Theology, Science and Technology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Morality, Philosophy and Theology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Life Science, Philosophy and Theology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Life Science, Philosophy and Theology, Science and Technology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Life Science, Philosophy and Theology
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...
