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February 7, 2008

Leading science and theology scholars reject 'intelligent design'

A group of leading scientifically and theologically qualified scholars has issued a clear rebuttal of the 'intelligent design' ideology that has gained ground among conservative religious believers, especially in the USA, in recent years.
February 5, 2008

Religion is the greatest threat to scientific progress and rationality that we face today - ReThink debates

For: Professor Daniel Dennett, Director, Center for Cognitive Studies Tufts University.
January 30, 2008

Pope says science should serve humanity rather than the other way round

Pope Benedict XVI has told a gathering of academics that science should serve rather than enslave humanity, warning that the reduction of human beings and nature to mere 'objects' is not good for the spirit of reasoned enquiry.
January 16, 2008

Italian scientists attack Pope's equivocation on Galileo trial

Pope Benedict has cancelled a visit to the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome after protests about his past remarks about Galileo. But a professor there says attempts to stop him speaking violate intellectual freedom.
December 13, 2007

Has Rowan Williams misunderstood Richard Dawkins?

While Rowan Williams rightly criticises Richard Dawkins for unfeasibly reducing religion to a pre-scientific explanatory system now superseded by science, says Ricahrd Skinner, he seems to have misunderstood Dawkins on evolution and survival strategies.
October 5, 2007

Government responds to requests for action on 'creationism' (updated)

In June 2007 the Christian think-tank Ekklesia and the British Humanist Association wrote to the new Schools, Children and Families minister, Ed Balls MP, urging him to make progress on combating creationism in British schools. The government has subsequently issued its promised guidelines.
September 26, 2007

Teachers' guidelines on science and religion teaching
December 14, 2006

US churches seek reasoned debate on biotechnology industry

A major inter-church organisation in the United States is urging people of faith join the debate on stem cell research in a constructive way, to raise necessary questions about human "enhancement", to affirm the human purposes of biotechnology, and to press for adequate regulation of the companies shaping the future of this crucial industry.