If this was
an issue of science for the purpose of advancement of our understanding, the question would be is the value of the net effect from the combination of geothermal heat transfer and permanent energy uptake 3, 6.5, or 18.05 Watts / m ^ 2; but as this entire issue is nothing more than a politically motivated fabrication the only question of concern seems to be who said what about whom and were they justified in doing so.
Check out the 6 December print
issue of Science for a news package on snakes, including more on the genomes, a story about efforts to develop drugs from venom, and a report about the fight against the invasive brown tree snake in Guam.
See tomorrow's
issue of Science for a more comprehensive overview of the DSM - V draft criteria.
Complete issue reprints are not available, but we do offer individual back
issues of Science for purchase.
Not exact matches
«This is a chance
for the Democrats to talk in tough terms about safety and security and also to link that to the gun
issue,» said Robert Spitzer, political
science professor at State University
of New York at Cortland.
The briefing, entitled «STEM 101: Major Policy
Issues for the 115th Congress,» featured expert panelists Dr. David Evans
of the National
Science Teachers Association, Allyson Knox
of Microsoft, Dr. Norman Fortenberry
of the American Society
for Engineering Education, Domenic Giandomenico
of -LSB-...]
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For Professor Shi Yong, deputy director
of the Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data
Science in Beijing, this is a moral
issue, not just a question
of governance.
But rather than incentivize teaching innovation that would allow
science educators to discuss religion and ethics ---
for example, creationism in light
of evolution and vice versa, or the scientific and ethical implications
of stem cells and in vitro fertilization — many teachers are afraid to even mention these
issues, despite their importance,
for fear
of losing their jobs.
The fact that you are uneducated is not the
issue of those
of us who are... read a
science book
for a change and get your head out
of that 2000 year old book... only children and schizophrenics have imaginary friends..
Such identification is the theme
of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967
issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots
of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975
issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor
of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility
for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»
Mr Deighan will have read in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has been powerfully challenged by the success
of modern
science (
for example Jaeger's article in our last
issue and in our September 2006
issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).
The American Association
for the Advancement
of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evo
Science, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies
of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evo
science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and
issued several press releases in support
of evolution.
A special feature keeping us up to date with
issues of science and religion TEMPLETON WINNER, MIND AND MATHEMATICS In mid-March it was announced that this year's winner
of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition
of, and promotion
of, work
for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professor.
Certainly Catholic Christianity has had the ability to engage the
issue with seriousness, with respect
for the integrity
of science, and with fidelity to the biblical narrative and Tradition
of the Church, as evidenced by the efforts
of Pope Pius XII (Humani Generis, 1950) and Pope John Paul II [Address to the Pontifical Academy
of Sciences, October 22, 1996).
I do take
issue, however, with Hancock when he states that the natural
sciences are «
for the most part... safely insulated from the questions
of ultimate purpose that condition our understanding
of the meaning
of education.»
These problems are
of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality
of the future
of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative
issue first detailed
for us by the writers
of science fiction.
For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 196
For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting
of man over against the sum total
of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality
of things themselves, are posited in the very idea
of creation and
of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition
of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees
of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language
for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 196
for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent
for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 196
for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon
of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal
of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour,
Issues in
Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1962).
Thus on both the social and the individual levels the proposal
of a simple transfer
of the ethical attitudes
of science appears to underestimate the complexity
of ethical
issues, to idealize the purity
of the scientist's motives, and to provide no adequate dynamic
for concern about the welfare
of others.
Harrison also unfolds Augustine's insightful contribution to the
science — religion debate, drawing out a number
of valuable principles — not least, recommending restraint where
issues are not clear, and avoiding bringing Christianity into contempt by arguing
for false scientific opinions on the supposed grounds
of scriptural warrant.
My friends who work in scientific fields were aghast when they saw that the organizers
of a planned «March
for Science» had tweeted that «colonization, racism, immigration, native rights, sexism, ableism, queer -, trans -, intersex - phobia, & econ justice are scientific
issues [black power....
There were other
issues too: The way the accounts
of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both
science and archeology challenged the historicity
of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible
for me to write a creative retelling
of Resurrection Day because each
of the gospel writers tell the story so differently, sometimes with contradictory details.
The narrative nature
of science has enormous implications
for issues in
science and religion.
We turn now to some current
issues of science in national policy in which there may be significant opportunities to work
for a better society.
If you have an
issue with evolutionary theory, then do your work on why it's wrong and submit it
for publication and collect your many prizes (Nobel and otherwise) and rejoice at the reprinting
of every single
science book in the world with your theory in it.
Drug laws have also fostered drug - related murders and an estimated 40 percent
of all property crime in the U.S. Ethan A. Nadelmann, whose article «Drug Prohibition in the United States» in the September 1, 1989,
issue of Science has been a major catalyst
for public discussion
of legalization, argues that «the greatest beneficiaries
of the drug laws are organized and unorganized drug traffickers.
=============== @momoya» If you have an
issue with evolutionary theory, then do your work on why it's wrong and submit it
for publication and collect your many prizes (Nobel and otherwise) and rejoice at the reprinting
of every single
science book in the world with your theory in it.»
In doing so, we will be able to provide a new basis
for discussion
of the relationship
of science to religion and
of the
issue of nature and purpose.
An elucidation
of the agreement here, however, involves concepts which provide a context
for an alternative which challenges the formalist position with respect to the logic
of other key
issues in the philosophy
of science, viz., with respect to the nature and status
of laws, the role and justification
of induction, the model
of theoretical explanation, and the intelligibility
of conceptual change.
Before we do that we need to remember many other things, especially the way the passion
of Jesus has been employed through millennia by Christian believers
for the oppression
of Jews.17 We should consider also the need
of a people
for a homeland, an
issue poorly illumined by either the memory
of the passion
of Jesus alone or contemporary social
sciences.
Though it wasn't long before I made my peace with Evolution not being an
issue of salvation, these crisis moments ensured that I would wrestle
for many years with the ways my faith seemed to clash with
science.
We will again exist in a world
of subjects rather than a world
of objects, and such a world will call
for a new type
of science and a changed role
for technology.44 Compared with such a revolution the
issues separating liberals and Marxists are relatively minor.
In conclusion, the
issue of science and the Bible provides a clear occasion
for the reader to carry on a dialogue with the Bible.
While President Bush stood firm, the
issue of stem cell research appeared to be a political winner
for Democrats and to pit the claims
of science against strict ethical guidelines.
Super small beings
of intelligence, building and maintaining molecular machinery within all megalithic life formations may well be considered ID yet to think
of such
issues outside the veins
of rudimentary
sciences is where debates
of, are to be made manifestations
for thought inspired conjectures.
The Primacy
of Christ in the light
of modern
science vindicates, with a new profundity we believe, the Catholic tradition which has affirmed Tertullian's «the flesh is the hinge
of salvation» (see our Editorial
for September 07, «Renewing our Vision
of the Sacraments», and the lively correspondence that followed in subsequent
issues).
(Washington, D.C.) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA)
issued the following statement by Dr. Leon Bruner, GMA's chief
science officer, regarding the decision by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to accept
for review industry's food additive petition seeking approval
for a specified set
of low - level uses
of partially hydrogenated oil (PHOs) in food products.
In response to a paper to be published in the February
issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, Dr. Maureen Storey, senior vice president
of science policy
for the American Beverage Association,
issued the following statement:
On March 16, Mrs. Obama delivers the keynote address at the GMA
Science Forum, calling
for even greater collaboration between government and the private sector to find lasting solutions to the
issue of obesity in America.
In response to «Effects
of Energy Drinks Mixed with Alcohol on Behavioral Control: Risks
for College Students Consuming Trendy Cocktails,» a study to be published in the July
issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, Dr. Maureen Storey, senior vice president
of science policy
for the American Beverage Association,
issued the following statement:
The Washington, DC - based Center
for Science in the Public Interest is asking consumers «not to believe» a new video posted online by 5 - hour Energy, which has come under fire recently after reports
of health
issues possibly linked to the product.
After five years
of watching bad
science, defensiveness from both sides, and extremist advocacy rather than balance, I've written an article which is an appeal
for nuance on the
issue of low carbohydrate diets.
Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious
issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead
for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful,
science - based» dialog about the role
of sports in our kids» lives.
A review
of studies evaluating various therapies utilized in rehabilitation from anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery provides additional support
for guidelines
issued by a multi-center group
of 20 clinicians in 2001 (dubbed the MOON guidelines), and establishes that most have a sound basis in
science.
For many years the surge in technology and
science put men in charge
of women's
issues, including birthing babies.
«I think that public understanding
of engineering and
science is incredibly important, both to continue getting support
for these fields, but also to inform people as they make decisions about lots
of issues that are confronting our world today,» he said.
Auerbach, Kathleen CURRENT
ISSUES IN CLINICAL LACTATION 2002 Jones & Bartlett, 2002 Providing new insights on lactation science, this publication explores current lactation issues: effectives of a non-supportive culture, screening for alcohol consumprion of a mother, and patients» perceptions of providers's views on breastfe
ISSUES IN CLINICAL LACTATION 2002 Jones & Bartlett, 2002 Providing new insights on lactation
science, this publication explores current lactation
issues: effectives of a non-supportive culture, screening for alcohol consumprion of a mother, and patients» perceptions of providers's views on breastfe
issues: effectives
of a non-supportive culture, screening
for alcohol consumprion
of a mother, and patients» perceptions
of providers's views on breastfeeding.
Carol is a member
of the Expecting More team that is creating state -
of - the -
science maternity care decision aids; co-author
of 2010 direction - setting companion reports: «2020 Vision
for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System» and «Blueprint
for Action»; lead author
of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator
of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author
of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author
of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor
of special
issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management
of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overuse.
«It's substantively not the most critical health
issue, yet it was framed in such a way that the public outcry actually changed food policy in a matter
of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center
for Science in the Public Interest.
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