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  • 16 Jan 2008
    Italian scientists attack Pope's equivocation on Galileo trial

    Pope Benedict has cancelled a visit to the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome after protests about his past remarks about Galileo. But a professor there says attempts to stop him speaking violate intellectual freedom.

  • 13 Dec 2007
    Has Rowan Williams misunderstood Richard Dawkins?

    While Rowan Williams rightly criticises Richard Dawkins for unfeasibly reducing religion to a pre-scientific explanatory system now superseded by science, says Ricahrd Skinner, he seems to have misunderstood Dawkins on evolution and survival strategies.

  • 5 Oct 2007
    Government responds to requests for action on 'creationism' (updated)

    In June 2007 the Christian think-tank Ekklesia and the British Humanist Association wrote to the new Schools, Children and Families minister, Ed Balls MP, urging him to make progress on combating creationism in British schools. The government has subsequently issued its promised guidelines.

  • 26 Sep 2007
    Teachers' guidelines on science and religion teaching
  • 14 Dec 2006
    US churches seek reasoned debate on biotechnology industry

    A major inter-church organisation in the United States is urging people of faith join the debate on stem cell research in a constructive way, to raise necessary questions about human "enhancement", to affirm the human purposes of biotechnology, and to press for adequate regulation of the companies shaping the future of this crucial industry.