When we speak of minds, can someone who would reduce consciousness to biology offer an adequate picture of what it means for us to know something?
Science
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Can E.T. call anyone? Jesuit astronomer studies intragalactic possibilities
It’s a long-standing puzzle: If there is such a high probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe, then, as Enrico Fermi was alleged to have said, “Where is everybody?
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Where can we find God during a modern-day plague?
In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.
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Templeton winner’s ‘every waking moment’ focused on efforts to cure COVID
Dr. Francis S. Collins, who led the Human Genome Project–and who is a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences–has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Templeton Prize.
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Review: The Life and Times of Galileo
Galileo’s struggles with ignorant authorities have eerie parallels in our own age.
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Review: Geological virtues
Marcia Bjornerud takes the reader on a tour de force of geology that explains how the contemporary earth sciences help with what religiously inclined readers might call the task of theological anthropology: a consideration of the world beyond humans, the world with humans, and the forces far beyond that shape us all.
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Review: Thomas Edison’s life of ceaseless action
He is most well known for inventing the light bulb and the phonograph, but Thomas Edison patented 1,093 “machines, systems, processes, and phenomena.” In 1881, Edmund Morris writes, Edison was “executing, on average, one new patent every four days.”
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Review: Doing theology in light of science, and vice versa
The core of Roger Haight’s new project is to ask “what science can teach Christian theologians about our own self-understanding” and to offer an answer to Christians who “either do not know how to process their Christian faith in this context or call it into question altogether.”
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Mining the partnership between science and religion
The book is characteristically careful, methodical and precise—hallmarks of Haight’s writing style and theological methodology. Readers familiar with the development of Catholic theologies of nature and creation will find much to converse with here, as will philosophical theologians.
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Papal academy invites tech giants to support ethical guidelines for AI
The Pontifical Academy for Life is invited tech leaders to help frame ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence, know as “AI.”