Sentences with phrase «new views of science»

It is my hope that the new views of science described here can offer some encouragement to such a combination of commitment and enquiry in religion.

In his new book Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion (Basic Books, New York; May 2008), Kauffman develops a larger argument: Understanding what's happening in complex systems could help modern science break free of what some consider its too - reductionistic underpinnings.

Not exact matches

«I saw firsthand the power broadcasters have to shape how others viewed stresses and challenges,» says Gielan, author of the new bestseller, Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change.

The Folly of Scientism Austin L Hughes, a professor of biology at the University of South Carolina, has written a perceptive, thought - provoking article in The New Atlantis magazine, concurring with my own view of current philosophical trends in popular scientific presentations.2 One of these trends is «scientism», the view that science is the only source of truth and reality.

According to Hans Jonas, the birth of modern science was bound up with the advent of a radical new view of reality, a «technological ontology» that conflates nature and artifice, knowing and making, truth and utility.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

We think that modern science's discovery of the inter-related, hierarchical unity of all the parts of the cosmos provides a solution: namely that individuals are defined through their universal relationships - see for instance our Sept 2006 editorial: The Catholic View of Matter: Towards a New Synthesis.

It hardly needs to be said that the new view of man, to which today's studies and sciences are leading us, constitutes a severe challenge to the doctrine of man assumed and taught by Christian orthodoxy.

The public has been fascinated by these breaks with traditional Western science and has responded enthusiastically to the writings of those scientists who have come up with new views.

In my view, there are at least six key factors which have caused and continue to affect a global transformation of consciousness: the revolution in communications, globalization of the economy, a growing awareness of the degradation of the environment, demographic shifts, the threat of nuclear destruction and the advent of the new science.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

I can not discuss them all here, but the following references are a start: Theodore de Laguna, review of The Principles of Natural Knowledge in Philosophical Review, 29 (1920), 269; Bertrand Russell, review of Science and the Modern World in Nation and Athenaeum, 39 (May 29,1926), 207; Charles Hartshorne, Creativity in American Philosophy (New York: Paragon House, 1984), 5,32,279 - 280; and even though Stephen Pepper believes both Whitehead and Bergson are mistaken in their views, he believes they are extremely similar: see Pepper, Concept and Quality: A World Hypothesis (LaSalle: Open Court, 1967), 340 - 341.

Whitehead believed this view of reality is consistent with the new developments in 20th - century science.

Can there not therefore be a genuinely fraternal place to discuss openness to the development of doctrine (taking into account contributions of modern sciences, philosophy and humanities) which is both faithful to the hierarchy of dogmatic truths andsympathetic to new methodology and content, without crossing over into an aggressively political or «conciliarist» view of progress?

Pedigree of Atheistic and Creationist Philosophy of Science Ambiguous A very positive review in the science journal Nature affirms that the new book Worlds before Adam, by the «influential historian of Earth Science» Martin Rudwick, «challenges the view that geology's development is a story of secular prScience Ambiguous A very positive review in the science journal Nature affirms that the new book Worlds before Adam, by the «influential historian of Earth Science» Martin Rudwick, «challenges the view that geology's development is a story of secular prscience journal Nature affirms that the new book Worlds before Adam, by the «influential historian of Earth Science» Martin Rudwick, «challenges the view that geology's development is a story of secular prScience» Martin Rudwick, «challenges the view that geology's development is a story of secular progress.

«Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the past 30 years, including new discoveries in biological and social science, there has been virtually no sustained change in Americans» views of the origin of the human species since 1982,» wrote Gallup's Frank Newport.

The liberal theology has never yet been given sufficient credit for having taken the new science — the new world view of the nineteenth century, the conception of growth and evolving life — and trying to reconceive the nature of God so as to make His relation to such a world intelligible.

They advocate the inclusion the new physics and the new biology in the high school science curriculum instead of the more typical one - sided presentation of the dominant view of scientific materialism.

In its encounter with the sciences, process thought has not only appropriated new scientific insights but has attempted a mutual transformation through which the sciences are liberated from the dominance of the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view into a holistic relational vision that is more coherent, consistent, adequate to the facts, and congruent with the best in the contemporary scientific enterprise itself.

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

Deservedly celebrated is Frederick Crews of the University of California who, in the New York Review of Books and in his book Skeptical Engagements, has been smiting Freudians hip and thigh, no doubt putting many psychoanalysts back on the couch to dream of the days when their declining business was viewed as a science.

However, the traditional Western - Christian paradigm of nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieOf course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categories.

It would be well to conclude this brief survey of some of the most significant recent theories in source analysis with the judgment of Aage Bentzen.6 It is of first importance, he states, that we understand the «import of tile «old school,» so that continuity in science can be seen and the new points of view get their true background.

Hans Kung suggests that the Enlightenment led to the unprecedented progress of the sciences, a completely new social order and a revaluation of the individual.12 Today the Enlightenment approach is subject to strong criticism, especially from post-modernists, but it helped, for good or ill, to divorce political and economic thinking from a basis in a religious view of life.

Rupert Sheldrake had been putting forward a view of the transmission of patterned structures in nature through what he calls «morphic resonance» in «formative causation» (see his book, A New Science of Life: the Hypothesis of Formative Causation).

Overagainst the supposition that science attained absolute truth to which all other interests and ways of knowing should be subordinated, and overagainst the view that all thinking should follow the methods of science, the new humility and relativization of science is a great gain.

The view that each variation has been providentially arranged seems to me to make natural selection entirely superfluous, and indeed takes the whole case of the appearance of new species out of the range of science....

Furthermore, the pre-modern science concept of «the nature» has been slipping out of our culture's world - view for centuries, given the force of new knowledge about formality.

(Science and the Modern World, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 178) At that point his development (the writing of Science and the Modern World), he felt he had said what one could say about God from a metaphysical point of view.

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 breastfeeding.

Theoretical mathematics is one of the most important sciences, since it gives new methodologies and points of views for all other sciences.

Geneticist and writer Rutherford takes a sweeping new view of the human evolution story, using the latest science of DNA as the central guide.

As organiser of the Athena conference on New Research on Women, Science and Higher Education reported in that article, I would question that view.

According to a new study published online today in Science, the tiny differences found in previous studies may have resulted from a slight tendency on the part of political conservatives to «self - enhance,» or view themselves in an unrealistically positive light.

In a recent column (17 December) I reported the view of New Zealand science minister Simon Upton that a broad approach to research is desirable, rather than being fixated on short - term goals.

Nonetheless, the backers of TMT are viewing a new 5 - year, $ 250,000 - per - year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a significant milestone.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

«Such bacteria, swallowed by a patient, might be able to record the changes they experience through the whole digestive tract, yielding an unprecedented view of previously inaccessible phenomena,» says Harris Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology and Systems Biology at CUMC and senior author on the new work, described in today's issue of Science.

Researchers with Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3 - D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain — a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is involved in a wide range of neurological diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and deprScience University's Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3 - D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain — a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is involved in a wide range of neurological diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and deprscience a new and unprecedented 3 - D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain — a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is involved in a wide range of neurological diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and depression.

The presidentially appointed oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is considering whether to revise a portion of the agency's statistical bible because it might be seen as out of step with the new administration's views on renewable energy research.

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DEEP VIEW This Hubble Space Telescope image of nearly 10,000 galaxies of different ages, sizes and shapes is one of over 100 pictures in a new illustrated history of science.

When science posits a truth that seems to contradict Scripture (lack of evidence of a global flood, for example), the Bible's inherent elasticity simply envelops the new finding, and any apparent contradiction is relegated to the realm of parable (where Noah's ark resides, in the view of many Catholics).

A NEW VIEW Conservation science, color theory and art history came together to produce this recolorization of Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom.

The new Antenna is pledged to view the cultural context of science in each film, so we are treated to the vision of the vulpine, if affable, Deutsch making toast in his kitchen, and visiting his local pub.

«When they are offered the choice to read news articles that support their views or challenge them on the basis of new evidence, science - curious individuals opt for the challenging information,» Kahan said.

Despite its housekeeping chores, such as the time - consuming business of pointing itself at new targets, called slewing, and repointing itself every 45 minutes or so when Earth and other bodies block the field of view, the Hubble manages to do science nearly 50 percent of the time - making it one of the most efficient telescopes ever to operate.

Despite similar views about the overall place of science in America, the general public and scientists often see science - related issues through a different lens, according to a new pair of surveys by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science science in America, the general public and scientists often see science - related issues through a different lens, according to a new pair of surveys by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science science - related issues through a different lens, according to a new pair of surveys by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science (AAAS).

Visions of the Cosmos: From Milky Ocean to Black Hole Rubin Museum OF ART, New York City Eastern and Western views of cosmology meet in this exploration of traditions, science, and religioof the Cosmos: From Milky Ocean to Black Hole Rubin Museum OF ART, New York City Eastern and Western views of cosmology meet in this exploration of traditions, science, and religioOF ART, New York City Eastern and Western views of cosmology meet in this exploration of traditions, science, and religioof cosmology meet in this exploration of traditions, science, and religioof traditions, science, and religion.

A new University of Utah study in the journal Science provides the first complete view of the plumbing system that supplies hot and partly molten rock from the Yellowstone hotspot to the Yellowstone supervolcano.