Content on Religion and Science (Page 2)
The Ethics of Saving a Life
What does Judaism have to say about risky medical procedures and extending life?
Insights from Spinoza and the New Brain Sciences
Spinoza speculated about how ethics could emerge from biology and psychology rather than disrupt them, and recent evidence suggests he might have gotten it right.
Maimonides On the Garden of Eden
The crucial and central question for every society, Maimonides believed, was how it could use the imagination to ensure both its own long-term survival and also its commitment to justice.
Believing and Knowing
The thing that kills both scientific exploration and faith is rock-solid certainty.
What Makes Us Human? It’s Being Perplexed
For Maimonides, to be a religious person, and to live with scientific and moral truths, means that, like a tightrope-walker, you must continually move forward, and fight to maintain your balance.
How Failure in Science Nurtures Success in Medicine
How do science’s failures fuel medicine’s successes? And what is it like to communicate both?
Why Trust Science?
Public trust of science in America has hit major roadblocks in recent years. Is religious culture to blame?
A Letter to My Kids about the Universe, Faith and Science
Teaching our children about science and talking to them about God are some of the most beautiful gifts we can give to them.
Science and Torah – Some Common Ground
The desire to link seemingly disparate items or concepts together and define a unifying structure is at the root of science.
How the Clergy Letter Project Brings Together Different Voices
Imagine that — NPR and Fox News agreeing on something, and on something controversial.
Radiation Therapy and the Empirical Mind of God
God clearly understands how things work. Divine reason holds the cosmos together.
What Does “Purity” Mean?
Subconsciously, we tend to link physical and moral purity, but they’re not always linked.