The thirty-second annual Paul Wattson Lecture ( named after the founder of the Graymoor Friars) was held Feb. 27 at the University of San Francisco. The Wattson lectures ( on whose board I serve) ...
What’s the state of public discourse on science and religion today? Frequently the starting points of the disputing parties are so diametrically opposed that rational debate becomes difficult at best.
Experiments in public engagement, pioneered by the Sciencewise programme, are one of the quiet success stories of UK science policy over the past decade. The need for researchers to escape the lab or ...
In this idealized dialogue between faith and science, some of the most entrenched reasons for the common split are explored. Science insists in... Within the perennial debate between science and ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in collaboration with the Nepal Forum of Science Journalists (NFSJ), organized its third science dialogue session ...
The hubris of some scientists knows no bounds. Less than a year after He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, drew scorn and censure for creating gene-edited twins, Denis Rebrikov, a Russian molecular ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in collaboration with the Nepal Forum of Science Journalists (NFSJ), organised its first science dialogue session on the ...
During the nearly 20 years I served as staff director of the Catholic bishops’ Committee on Science and Human Values, I frequently made the case that the annual dialogues the bishops conducted with ...
Within the perennial debate between science and religion, something that tends to irritate scientists — especially those who declare themselves atheists or agnostics — is the insistence in the ...