There’s been this genome conference going on here in Rome, which I have to say I have ignored because I’m really not sure how the church’s views on such things really matter. This morning, however, brought news from AP, at the [Washington Post]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
Neddie said “Dead to rights”. I'm not so sure.
You go out of your way to build bridges with people of different views and beliefs and have quite a few religious friends. You believe in the essential goodness of people, which means you're always looking for common ground even if that...
Cheap flights make playboys of us all. To Geneva (for less than 100 euros return, for two) to meet up with an old friend who foolishly suggested a few weeks ago that we go see Bob Dylan play Zurich. Of course I soon discovered that Bob would be playing Bologna on Thursday and Milan on Saturday. But I know nobody in either place, and the point was not merely to see Bob but to do so with friends and generally Have A Good Time.
Which we duly did.
I’m pretty much at a loss for words about Kansas deciding, not for the first time, to implement education standards that “cast doubt on evolution”. It follows hard on the news that Dover, Pennsylvania kicked out all eight IDiot members of its school board who forced science teachers to read a stat...
The permanent lesson that the Galileo case represents pushes us to keep alive the dialogue between the various disciplines, and in particular between theology and the natural sciences, if we want to prevent similar episodes from repeating themselves in the future.
The, er, wise words of Cardin...
