Is Faith Like ‘Fake News’?
As a scientist, it takes years of training and failing, and occasionally succeeding, to become comfortable with knowing that some day you might be proven wrong. How different that looks through the lens of faith!
Posts tagged with ‘Uncertainty’
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Thoughtful, Hopeful, Jewish: Navigating between Reason and Optimism in Scary Times
How do we navigate between reason and optimism as they crash against each other?
Why I Am Both Mourning and Celebrating the Yankees’ ALCS Loss
How could we be thrilled with one deal in March, and then, when it actually happens in October, be so upset?
It Might Be Kosher. It Might Not Be. Can You Eat It? And How Do You Decide?
If you are a traditional Jew and see a slice of meat that’s likely — but not certain — to be kosher, what do you do?
Is This The Beginning or The End?
It is hard to be handed a 508 million year old fossil from the Burgess Shale and not realize that our problems and ideas are fairly small and short-lived.
How Do We Deal With Fear?
Can religion — as a source of creative meaning — “inoculate” us against the fears that naturally arise?
The Mysterious Nature of Love and Truth
Jonathan Morgan and Rev. Doug Hammack share how both science and religion have influenced their views on both love and truth.
Reaching for the Heavens: Technologies of Science and Religion
Astrophysicist and Christian John ZuHone realizes that in both his scientific life and his religious life, he must rely on something “in between” to get to what he’s really after.
Can Science and Religion Co-Exist?
The video and audio from our panel discussion “Can Science and Religion Co-Exist?”
Why Doubt and Uncertainty are Good — For Both Religion and Science
Knowledge and uncertainty, and belief and doubt, are often two sides of the same coin, and it’s the dynamic relationship between the two that drives us forward. At the second Sinai and Synapses seminar, Professors Karl Giberson and Stuart Firestein share their thoughts on this tension.
