Interesting article: Five Surprising Facts about the Religious Beliefs of Scientists

This article is rather interesting

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Five Surprising Facts About the Religious Beliefs of Scientists Around the World - See more at: http://biologos.org/blogs/guest/five-surprising-facts-about-the-religious-beliefs-of-scientists-around-the-world#sthash.t8NOXVJF.dpuf

Five Surprising Facts About the Religious Beliefs of Scientists Around the World - See more at: http://biologos.org/blogs/guest/five-surprising-facts-about-the-religious-beliefs-of-scientists-around-the-world#sthash.t8NOXVJF.dpuf

Five Surprising Facts about the Religious Beliefs of Scientists Around the World

C.S. Lewis on Religion and Science

An interesting passage from a C.S. Lewis book on Religion and Science, beautifully illustrated.

Inspiring interview with Oxford Professor Alister McGrath

Mercatornet has just published a very nice interview with Oxford Professor Alister McGrath, who holds a chair in "Science and Religion".

You can find the interview here.

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Polo's Challenge to Biologists in his Introduction to Philosophy

Recently, I published an review of Leonardo Polo's 'Introduction to Philosophy' in the Journal of Polian Studies. In it, I highlight the challenge Polo's thinking poses to biologists, even in this introductory work. Polo is a 'systemic thinker' who has thought through very fundamental concepts that will prove very useful now that the study of the Human Genome and other 'omes' is proving just how interrelated everything is in an organism.

You can access my full review here.

Interesting website on John Henry Newman

Paul Shrimpton has recently written a book about John Henry Newman, entitled,  "The making of men: the Idea and reality of Newman’s university in Oxford and Dublin" (Gracewing, 2014).

He has now published some of the material in this book on a website, which can be browsed for specific themes of interest. One topic mentioned there, of special interest to me is the one on the compatibility of faith and reason. But there are many others worth exploring.

The homepage of this website can be found here.

Booklet published about Faith and Science: Can I, a Scientific Student, Believe?

A few years ago I gave a lecture at Amsterdam University College about faith and science, at the request of a student. The response was good then, and I still like the project, so I decided to publish this lecture as a booklet, in electronic format. This booklet is available for free and written in English. You can find more information below.

Can I, a Scientific Student, Believe?

A science student’s intellectual battle to unite himself to his religious parents. 

When his Jewish family invites Nicodemus to move with them to Jerusalem, he asks a religious scientist how faith and science can combine; but when fast answers are in short supply, he must both learn that faith requires serious study and that there is more to faith than knowledge alone, or his family’s convictions will remain beyond his reach forever.

The booklet can be downloaded without charge from this page.

4 Paradoxes About Our Personal Desires that will Make You Wonder

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be completely free? What it would be like to get to know the things you love as deeply as possible? What it would be like to always be together with the person you love most? And have you ever wondered why it is, that we have a great desire to be in these situations, but that these desires seem never to be fully fulfilled?

In this talk, given in a TED-like style, I take you on an exploratory tour of four paradoxes we find within us, related to our deepest desires. I explain why the natural sciences will never be able to explain these paradoxes, and under what conditions they could be explained. Finally, I draw some fundamental conclusions about the science and faith discussion.

These thoughts were inspired on prof. Sellés description in “Antropología para Inconformes” of the personal transcendentals that Leonardo Polo discovered. Enjoy!