Sentences with phrase «science on society»

TW's annual poetry issue will explore the impact of science on society — an increasingly high - stakes topic.

The name describes the mandate of these awards — to recognize excellence in reporting that explores the impact of science on society.

My blogs and other writing cover topics on the impact of science on society including the effects of pseudoscience, the problems of alternative medicine, the anti-vaccination movement, gene patents, and the influence of sports on higher education.

The Need To Develop It remains strange that so many of the Church's leaders seem incurious to the opportunity of science for the Faith, as the potential impact of science on society (for good and ill) becomes ever more important with each passing year.

Not exact matches

Society tells us we should work on our English, social sciences, history and math all at once.

Gilbert, who holds the Presidential Endowed Chair in Computing, is conducting his own study on whether society could change how youths view computer science.

Through programs like the Science Talent Search, the Society and Regeneron hope to get the nation back on track with sScience Talent Search, the Society and Regeneron hope to get the nation back on track with sciencescience.

A May 2013 study published in Science Magazine found that our society is increasingly relying on the digitized, aggregated opinions of others to make decisions.

It's an investigation into the value society places on introverts and the science that makes us more or less outgoing.

TweetThe STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum joined the National Science Teachers Association, American Chemical Society, Afterschool Alliance, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Education Development Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery to host the another round of the Policy Forum's continued education briefing series on informal education.

The panel was co-sponsored by Got Your 6, Hands on Science Partnership, American Chemical Society, American Society for Engineering Education, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and Society of Women Engineers.

The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum joined the National Science Teachers Association, American Chemical Society, Afterschool Alliance, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Education Development Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery to host the another round of the Policy Forum's continued education briefing series on informal education.

Or perhaps you can pause for a moment and think about all the paranormal activity that goes on from UFO's to ghosts and spirits and you will realize that science does not have all the answers and there is little more to life than what society will have you believe.

The wild thing is that since science is as money driven as other insti «tutions in society the jury is still out on many things as long as labs are in competi «tion with each other for funding and prestige.

Last summer at MIT I participated in the World Council of Churches» Conference on Faith, Science and the Future, which was committed to envisioning a just, participatory and sustainable society.

For years to come, the lessons from Dover will continue to have a profound impact on how science is viewed in our society and how it is taught in the classroom

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

By offering a standardized curriculum focused on math and science, we can give Wakandans a bedrock upon which they can build a more civilized society.

Think of how you would view witchcraft as a retarding influence on society and how you would long for the day when the shining light of science and reason would illuminate your village and the majority of the population would abandon their belief in witches, pixies and elves.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

In addition to ending unnecessary experimentation in science and the unnecessary infliction of pain on animals in industry and agribusiness, we should end many other practices that society currently sanctions.

As society relies more and more heavily on science and technology on ever more fundamental levels, it becomes increasingly more important that all citizens receive a proper grounding in science and the scientific method.

As long as evangelicals reject science, they are at odds with modern society and are on the road to extinction.

I wish the schools would focus on teaching children math, science and other things required to make our society better, rather than focussing on this non-issue.

The lead essay begins with the statement: «The social sciences have largely ignored the fact that human societies depend on the biophysical environment for their survival.»

2 Much of the material in this section on process - relational thought has been previously published in my An Introduction to the Process Understanding of Science, Society and the Self, 1 - 32.

At the UN, we see Islamic nations, the Catholic Church and Protestant fundamentalists on the same side in the matters of science and society, modernity and secularism.

The successful conquest of the institutions of science by overtly politicized forces would change little on the ground, but it would help to update society's perceptions so that they match the underlying reality.

Choice of employment, particularly rejection of work on purely military projects, has been the chief concern of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science.

Again, value - judgments are less directly involved in the details of work in the natural sciences than in many other fields; in the social sciences, for example, a scholar's work is more strongly affected by his views of the nature of man, his values and goals, and his perspective on society.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

The Rise of the Technocratic Society New York June 24 A discussion on the history of contemporary Western culture with Dr. Michael Hanby, professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science, John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America and Dr. Carlo Lancellotti, Professor of Mathematics, CUNY, editor and translator of The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto Del Noce.

They also need to be in conversation with those who work professionally to understand what is going on in our society: above all, those who pursue human science disciplines with philosophical responsibility.

While Platt puts his faith in the resourcefulness of the sciences to solve human problems, he highlights the importance of the value question at least implicitly by his insistence on the necessity of reordering the priorities by which we as a society invest our talents.

In the Christian Science Monitor, David Newsom has commented that «conflict in the decades ahead is likely to center not so much on disputes among states as on efforts within states to find a balance between national cohesion and an honorable recognition of the separate characteristics of groups within the society.»

Anne Roe, «Children of Alcoholic Parents Raised in Foster Homes,» Alcohol, Science and Society (New haven: Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1945) pp. 115 - 28.

KC: Modernity's influence on traditional societies involves the emergence of the nation - state with secularization brought about by western technology and science.

Roman Catholicism or Christian Science, Eastern Orthodoxy or Mormonism, Anglicanism or The Society of Friends, and so on through more than two hundred Protestant sects in the United States — which kind of Christianity is the one true religion?

But to our society that bases its knowledge on science these are invalid ways of knowing truth (although we use them to prove other things: experience, gut feelings; innate knowledge; history; accurate predictors).

Oh, I hope you didn't misunderstand me, I totally admit that those who don't want to be a part of society, those who are trying to undermine humanities success, those who are fighting science and progress at every turn have NO PLACE ON OUR PLANET.

So the idea that belief in God is universally a negative effect on society isn't a science - based claim, that's a tribal claim.

On 13 July 2009 at the Royal Society the Reverend Professor John Polkinghorne captured such agnostic philosophy of science in candid manner.

I was present at the birth of the phrase the «ecologically sustainable society» at a conference in Bucharest organized by the World Council of Churches in 1974 on Science and Technology and Human Development (World Council of Churches 1974).

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

Yes we have checks and balances but when the large amount of people (40 % +) in our reasonable society reject science based on Christianity you can see where those checks can easily disappear, many people are working towards that end.

It is true that secular society has dogmas, but these dogmas are not offensive, because Americans think they are based on «reason» or «science.»

[13] Charles Birch became one of the leading figures in framing and gui (ling the World Council of Churches Conference on Faith, Science and the Future that was held at MIT in 1979, which focused on the quest for a «just peace and sustainable» society — one now replaced by the title «justice, peace and the integrity of creation.»

What we have written about the social dimensions of preaching arises from our experience, our reflection on society, and some familiarity with selected social science literature.

More than 130 experts on viruses in the food chain gathered at the first International Workshop on Foodborne Viruses at the Royal Society of Science in London.

As you all may remember, I was in a medicine / science / society research class this semester and working on a big research paper as the objective of the class.