by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Life Science, Philosophy and Theology, Religion
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science, Philosophy and Theology, Science and Technology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science, Philosophy and Theology, Science and Technology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science, Philosophy and Theology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science, Philosophy and Theology
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...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Earth Science, Philosophy and Theology, Physical Science
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,...
