Posts tagged with ‘Science and Religion’

William Grassie > Science and Religion

The Great Matrix of Big History
Understanding Natural Hierarchies through Big History Buy the Book: Applied Big History Our European ancestors once understood the universe...
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Climates Change—Get Over It!
We live on a restless planet. We wouldn’t be here otherwise. Our lineage, Homo sapien, began its social conquest...
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The Queen of the Sciences
Our medieval ancestors understood theology to be the queen of the sciences. Her twin sister Sophia—the Greek word for...
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Religion und Naturwissenschaft
Die Grundlage eines sinnvollen Engagements zwischen Religion und Naturwissenschaft Vortrag für den RSNG-Jahreskongress der Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart. 28.-30. September...
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Between Atheism and Fundamentalism
In jest I call myself “a recovering Unitarian.” I was raised believing that all religions are the same, so...
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Telling Time: A Correlated Big History
The challenge of measuring time reaches back to the origins of human consciousness. From a 28-day periodicity of the...
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The Neurosciences of Bar Mitzvah
Attending a recent Bar Mitzvah ceremony, I was impressed, once again, by the wisdom of this ancient tribal initiation...
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A.N. Whitehead’s Metaphysics
Resources and Problems In 1927, British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was asked to give the prestigious Gifford...
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Teaching the History of Nature
Towards an Integrated Science Curriculum (1) The 20th century has seen enormous advances in science and technology. General science...
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Eating Well Together
Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto It was a rainy fall day in Pennsylvania farm country. I was assisting the...
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Metanexus: The Challenge
My charge tonight is to give a keynote in which I lay out what I think the major challenges...
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Review of Beinhocker The Origin of Wealth
In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biology A review of Eric D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity,...
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Metanexus: The Very Idea
The juxtaposition of the concepts “science” and “religion” in our civilization is a kind of Rorschach Test for all...
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Science, Religion, and the Bomb
Presented at the First International Congress on Religion and Science, Tehran, Iran, May 2006 I want to thank the...
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Sleepless in Tehran
2:00 AM. I woke up suddenly from a nightmare.1 It takes a few days to get over the jetlag. It...
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Science, Semiotics, and the Sacred
Seeking Spiritual Information in the Deep Structure of Reality Our principal benefactor at Metanexus Institute is John Templeton, the...
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Ecology, Religion, and Science
in The Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, edited by Lindsay Jones, New York, Macmillian Reference, V. 1, 2005. The contemporary...
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Beyond Intelligent Design
The English theologian William Paley wrote an influential book in 1802 entitled Natural Theology: Evidences of the Existence and Attributes...
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Ten Reasons
Ten Reasons for the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion Published on Metanexus, December 2003 1) Cultural Ambivalence When we...
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Which Universe Do You Live In?
The success of modern cosmology in understanding the history and structure of the universe has led to a profound...
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Hermeneutics in Science and Religion
Contribution to Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, Volume 1, Edited by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Macmillan References, 2003 Hermeneutics is the...
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Toward a Constructive Theology of Evolution
Toward a Constructive Theology of Evolution This paper was originally presented at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on...
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And yet there is no peace
Reflections from Jerusalem Back in 1977-1978 I spent a very formative Junior Year Abroad at the Hebrew University in...
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Why Science and Religion?
Whenever someone asks me what I do for a living, I take a deep breath. It takes more than...
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Science as Epic of Evolution?
Can the epic of evolution serve as a mythic story for our time? To do so requires insights of the...
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Powerful Pedagogy
in the Science and Religion Classroom for the Teacher’s File: Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, September 1997. Abstract. This essay...
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Postmodernism: What One Can’t Know
For The Teacher’s File, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, March, 1997. Abstract. This essay is an introduction to postmodernism and...
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