When asked about five ways that science can use genetic engineering on animals, many Americans express a reticence to mess with nature or “God’s plan.” Except when it comes to mosquitoes. A new survey released today by the Pew Research Center finds 7 in 10 Americans support
In the introduction to the French edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species, Clémence Royer claimed that Darwin’s theory called for the elimination of “all the disgraces of nature” among humanity, and social Darwinism was born. In 1871 Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton gave this belief a
WASHINGTON, D.C. – There are few places University of Delaware physicist Stephen Barr would rather be than in a roomful of 100 or so of his science colleagues discussing quantum mechanics without having to confront the oft-perceived divide between science and religion. Barr, president of
It has been almost twenty years since I dissected a dead human body. It still seems strange: My first encounter with a human body to learn the art of healing was an encounter with a corpse. What is more, I took this body to pieces.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican welcomes many conferences and symposiums throughout any given year, but few of them include celebrities, famous physicians, medical researchers and some of the world’s leading philanthropists. This is precisely what happened April 26-28 during the fourth “Unite to Cure Conference.”
Denver, Colo., Apr 6, 2018 / 12:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A woman who discovered that her biological father is the fertility doctor who helped her mother conceive has filed a lawsuit against him. A leading bioethicist says the case points to the risk of devastation
Nearly two decades ago, in an attempt to increase funding for research on embryonic stem cells, scientists and patient-advocacy groups enlisted patients suffering from a range of debilitating diseases, from Alzheimer’s to multiple sclerosis. Promising the possibility of a “cure” if only we would embrace
In Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time there’s a discussion about space-time that uses a four-dimensional geometrical shape called a tesseract (the square of a cube, as a cube itself is the square of a square) to approach the idea of a dimension outside space-time: a fifth dimension. Via
Pope Francis and Stephen Hawking: Faith and reason reach out to each other British scientist Stephen Hawking and Pope Francis met face to face on November 28 in the Vatican, just days after that renowned astrophysicist had confidently declared that asking “what was before the
For centuries people have looked to words spoken by God in the Bible’s first book for clarity on what it means to be human: “Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness” (Gn 1:26). Consistent with the thinking reflected there, human nature,
Praying the Rosary
Familiarize yourself with the prayers of the rosary.
