Sentences with phrase «on issues of science»

The Science Advisor should have a Rolodex of people with whom he / she can speak on issues of science where the Advisor is not expert.

Gabriel Cwilich: He's an historian, philosopher of science, all over the map and a thinker on issues of science and religion who are very relevant to this play as well.

Zoloth has also been invited to testify on the issues of science, bioethics and religion to the National Bioethics Advisory Council and the U.S. Senate.

«Three out of five scientists do not believe in God, but two out of five do, said John Donvan, opening a debate on the issue of science and religion yesterday (Dec. 5) in New York.

Dean Turner's recent book is full of valuable insights on the issue of science and religion.

But in choosing between Judith Curry and Naomi Oreskes as the author having greater trust and credibility on the issue of science and motivated reasoning, it is no contest.

Not exact matches

In November 1998, he testified as one of three technical expert witnesses, along with computer science professors from Princeton and MIT, in the landmark U.S. vs. Microsoft antitrust trial, on issues of corporate computing practices and Web browser integration.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.

On November 4, 2017, Yao Qian, the Deputy Director of the PBoC's Science and Technology Division and director of the PBoC Digital Currency Research Institute, reportedly spoke in Beijing, where he highlighted the importance of state - backed, central bank - issued cryptocurrency in an increasingly digital world.

I fear that parts of the central bank community have become blinded by the science and the technique, and that there has been excess allocation of intellectual resources to this pursuit (which perhaps could have better been focused on financial stability issues).

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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.

Science is and should be seen as «completely neutral» on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, says Father George V. Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that «science and religion are totally separate pursuits.Science is and should be seen as «completely neutral» on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, says Father George V. Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that «science and religion are totally separate pursuits.science and religion are totally separate pursuits.»

The issue is though, many of the things God made, are being described by science, with a lock being placed on those descriptions saying God can't be mentioned at the same time, and that is wrong... it's blasphemy against God.

Well, the new issue of PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE is out.

In my opinion, being agnostic on many things, I believe we have much more to learn in Dawkins» area of expertise before we can really get to an educated answer to the issue, but that is just a gut feeling, but with serious consideration to what we don't actually know on the issue from these fields of science.

«And to focus more precisely on the issue of «scientific evidence,» the sciences, ordered by their nature and method to an analysis of empirically verifiable objects and states of affairs within the universe, can not even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all.......

Science only seeks to describe the forms and processes of the world, and declines to comment on issues of meaning and value.

Despite agreeing with mainstream science on these issues, they deny evolution: they believe that the vast majority of species (and especially humans) were independently created by God during earth's long history.

Seven centuries ago Aquinas, in an age that venerated Augustine as an authority, broke with him on key issues of spirituality such as matter, time, women, history and the importance of the natural sciences.

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

Johnson also touches on a wide range of other issues, from the absurdity of postmodern science to the appeal of Eastern Christianity to the abdication of revealed truth in American universities.

Third, the lecture will deal with a few of the methodological issues in the advocacy scholarship of liberation theologies and how this scholarship corresponds with the turn to dialectics and praxis in contemporary philosophical reflections on science.

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

Much modern intellectual debate, particularly within the popular arena, centers on disputes between religion and science over such seminal issues as creationism versus evolutionary theory, or theological explanations of the origin of the universe versus the «big - bang theory» of the new cosmology.

So it's been called to my attention that I forgot to shamelessly promote the July - September issue of PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE.

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, 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.

Since the issue of the relation between creation and evolution has been so prominent, and since the contribution of process thought is so distinctive in this discussion, I shall focus on it as paradigmatic of process theology's treatment of the relation between science and religion.

The purpose of the meeting is described on the conference website: «within the complex and multifaceted issue of the Science / Faith relationship, this event focuses on the possibility of reconcilingin the same philosophical position the «Creation» and «Evolution'thinking, without frst pretending to be a scientifc theory or secondly being affrmed as a dogma.»

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.

See also Barbour, Ian G., Issues in Science and Religion (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1971); by the same author, Myths, Models and Paradigms (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1974); also, Barbour, Ian G., ed., Science and Religion: New Perspectives on the Dialogue (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1968); see also by the same author, Science and Secularity: The Ethics of Technology (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1970); also, Technology.

Our next issue will focus on Catholic approaches to the impact of modern science upon our understanding of physical being.

Some good ones are to be found in the latest issue of Perspectives on Political Science....

Christianity and science, which on big issues go hand in hand intellectually as well as historically, everywhere raised the standard of living and cut down on the fun.

In September, Time magazine organized a debate between Collins and Dawkins which touched on all the crucial issues: the false idea that science and faith should be held as not overlapping; the place of Darwinian evolution in the plan of God; the fine - tuning of the physical constants of nature; the literal interpretation of Genesis; the place of miracles including the incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus; and the origin of the moral law within the human heart.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

Turning to SMW itself, it is surprising how insignificant are the references to Charles Darwin specifically or to the issue of evolution generally, even in Chapter VI on the «Nineteenth Century,» given the historical importance of Darwin in the development of modern science.

On the one hand, «it is particularly fascinating to realize that today we are still facing some of the same issues concerning the interface of science and religion that Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo grappled with» notably, the role of scriptural literalism.»

21 The issues here are complex and detailed; nearly every commentator on Whitehead's philosophy of natural science discusses and criticizes this method.

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.

=============== @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.»

On the basis of experience from a variety of sources a religious person and the theologian formulate a theory which, like any theory dealing with complex issues in science, is a matter of weighing one experience against another, together with much subjective judgment.

The issues in religion and science have been very lively in the British media and education system, though still largely fixated on a paradigm of opposition and competition between Christianity and modern science.

When Millennials understand that Christianity is firmly established as «Truth» confirmed by «Science,» then Christianity is seen as having moral authority and the judgment of Christ on issues such as gay marriage will hold more power.

It is our best friend in life if we learned and not taken issues in to our hands as Gods on Earth a-busing or applying force but by the power of the science «Sultan» in Sura» t Al - Rahman through which we are told will be able to penetrate Heavens Hight «s God Allah permits..

In conclusion, the issue of science and the Bible provides a clear occasion for the reader to carry on a dialogue with the Bible.

Insistence on biblical science is just a first step toward renewing the church generally: «This will have a ripple effect as the church wakes up to biblical authority on any number of other issues.»