The writer and conservationist Wendell Berry is just the latest in a long line of critics who accuse science of being a religion.
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A statue honoring Giordano Bruno in the present day Campo de' Fiori • Photo by Fred Romero (CC BY 2.0)
Bruno would urge us to open our eyes
Giordano Bruno was born in the Kingdom of Naples in 1548, only a few years after the death of Copernicus. At the age of 24 he was ordained a Dominican priest, although his curious and uninhibited mind had already attracted the disapproval of his teachers.
Detail from “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo (c. 1512)
An appropriate mix of art, science
In early December [1999], the science journal Nature reported the sequencing of the first human chromosome — a complete transcription of the chemical units (nucleotides) making up the chromosomal DNA.
“The Astronomer” by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668)
A way of knowing, ways of believing
“Science Finds God,” screamed the cover of Newsweek not long ago.
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The bestseller we keep rewriting
“When the pulse of the first day carried it to the rim of night, First Woman said to First Man, ‘The people need to know the laws. To help them we must write the laws for all to see’”
“The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man” by Rubens and Brueghel the Elder (c. 1615)
Reconciling the ‘Adams’ of the soul
During this week of the winter solstice, Jews and Christians recall defining moments of their faith. In these darkest days of winter they celebrate festivals of light, calling out to their hidden god with longing and expectation.
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Are you a skeptic or a true believer?
A 1993 Gallup Poll posed these alternatives to Americans and asked which most closely represents their belief.
"The Creation of the Sun and the Moon" by Michelangelo
God of ignorance, or of knowledge?
One million bucks! Perhaps not as prestigious as a Nobel prize, but certainly more money. Physicist Paul Davies is a lucky man.
Teilhard de Chardin • Archives des jésuites de France (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Will we always be lost in the chasm?
On the shelves of my college library, the biographies of Teilhard de Chardin rest between those of the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the mystic Simone Weil.
An abandoned schoolroom in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster • Photo by Mick De Paola on Unsplash
The threefold sins of science
It’s time for scientists to pay their dues, says Dai Rees.