Content on Religion and Science (Page 7)
Finding Conflict and Camaraderie With “the Other”
Kendra Moore and Kate Stockly discuss how they ventured outside their comfort zones, and what it taught them.
Confessions of a Jewish Particle Physicist
My God is that ineffable being or essence that must suffuse our world and make it just so – make it a world that continues to fill me with awe.
How Can Places of Worship Better Serve Young Adults?
Do young adults “outgrow” religion? The Sinai and Synapses Fellows’ personal stories add nuance to this claim.
Science, Religion and Emerging Adults
Is science driving emerging adults from religion? Our Sinai and Synapses Fellows discuss.
How Darwin Influenced Early Reform Judaism
It’s not an unusual idea to think that Reform Jews are thinking in evolutionary terms. What’s different is that it is Darwin that they’re engaging with.
God as a “Scientific Object”
We need to keep rethinking what we believe about God based on new ideas and new experiences.
Why Science Would Never Prove That Life Is Like a Bowl of Cherries
The fact that a poetic statement like “human life is like a bowl of cherries” is a false scientific fact does not detract from its profound truth, reality, and insight.
Should Black Holes Praise Their Creator?
All stars have light, even the ones that don’t seem to have it on the surface.
Different Ideas of God, Same Questions
Rabbi Rachael Jackson and Rabbi Michal Loving discuss how can science and religion add up to a holistic human experience.
Science Doesn’t Compromise Religion — and Religion Doesn’t Compromise Science
Ian Binns, Ph.D. and Dr. Mark Bloom discuss how they came to hold a belief about science and religion being in dialogue rather than in opposition.
Where Dan Brown’s “Origin” Gets the Science/Religion Discussion Right…and Wrong
Whether religious leaders or scientific experts, as human beings, we begin by trusting our source.
Does Science Need Its Own Rituals?
Does religion offer something special that science doesn’t?