Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Religion and Science
The Yale Daily News has a report on the first of this year's Terry Foundation Lectures, "Religion and Science: Why Does the Debate Continue?"
The series featured biologist Kenneth R. Miller of Brown University as well as five other speakers representing a wide spectrum of scientists and philosophers.
The series featured biologist Kenneth R. Miller of Brown University as well as five other speakers representing a wide spectrum of scientists and philosophers.
"Supernatural explanations in science bother me as a natural scientist," Miller said.
But Miller went on to say that as a Catholic he sees no conflict between the empirical truth of evolution and the belief in a higher power that may have set the evolutionary process in motion. The two are separate, he said: One is a scientific idea, and the other is philosophical.
