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Jun 19, 2017 · The central problem of religious dogma, of course, is that the mythology of “God” offers a single cohesive story that contends to explain all of “Creation” — a theory that claims its truthfulness not by empirical evidence but by insistent assertion.
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Apr 6, 2011 · Martin Rees: The RealClearReligion Interview | RealClearReligion. up next: Martin Rees: The RealClearReligion Interview. By Jeremy Lott. April 06, 2011. Today the Templeton Foundation announced that Cambridge cosmologist Martin Rees has won its annual Templeton Prize.
May 2, 2024 · Martin Rees, English cosmologist and astrophysicist who was a main expositor of the big-bang theory of the origins of the universe. In Our Final Century (2003; also called Our Final Hour), he argued that humankind had only a 50 percent chance of surviving until the year 2100.
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Enshrined in these assertions is the assumption that science and religion are inescapably at war. And yet we must ask whether this assumption can possibly do justice to the great diversity of ways in which the relations between science and religion have been understood. There are many sciences, many religions. A scientific innovation problematic fo...
Looking back over history, we certainly find many occasions when science and religion have been in conflict. Call these flash points. Among these is the rejection of miracles by those convinced that nature is bound by unbreakable natural laws. Or the denial of human freedomby those who see the human mind as nothing more than the workings of brain c...
With their different sources of authority, the potential for tension, divergence, even animosity between representatives of scientific and religious communities will always be there. But tension, divergence, animosity – even conflict – are not the same as inevitable warfare. Many religious people have been indifferent to science. Many scientists ha...
Jun 19, 2017 · For as long as modern science has existed, scientists have attempted to answer such unanswerable questions by trying to either reconcile science and religion, like Galileo did in defending his theories against the Inquisition and Ada Lovelace did in considering the interconnectedness of the universe, or at least to relegate them to different ...
Apr 8, 2011 · Blurred boundaries of science and religion. Fri 8 Apr 2011 19.09 EDT. In reporting that Martin Rees had won this year's Templeton prize ( From big bang to big bucks, 7 April), Ian Sample...
