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  • 25 Sep
    2009
    Rationality and faith need each other, says Williams

    The Archbishop of Canterbury says a purely rationalistic and secularist approach to intellectual and academic life has sold short both the meaning of rationality and the broad human values nurtured by critical faith.

  • 9 Jun
    2009
    We need both the rational and the non-rational

    Try to imagine a world in which only things acceptable to pure reason are deemed legitimate, suggests Giles Fraser. It would be to imagine the most desperately impoverished cultural and emotional (let alone spiritual) desert.

  • 27 Jun
    2008
    Theology, science and the problem of ID

    This paper briefly sets out the religious, philosophical and political context of both the 2007 government guidelines on science teaching and the recent report and statement of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), explaining why 'intelligent design' (ID), popular among some religious groups, is neither sound science nor good theology. It includes notes, an overview of 2005-7 Ekklesia comments on creationism and ID, and a select bibliography.

    Simon Barrow
  • 22 Apr
    2008
    True faith is always asking questions

    Fundamentalism is a 20th-century invention, in many ways a response to the rapid social change brought about by modernity and global capitalism, says Giles Fraser. It is a perversion of religion, and in no way the real thing, let alone its 'heartbeat'.

  • 5 Feb
    2008
    Religion is the greatest threat to scientific progress and rationality that we face today - ReThink debates
    22/04/2008 - 19:00
    22/04/2008 - 20:30

    For: Professor Daniel Dennett, Director, Center for Cognitive Studies Tufts University.

  • 30 Jan
    2008
    Pope says science should serve humanity rather than the other way round

    Pope Benedict XVI has told a gathering of academics that science should serve rather than enslave humanity, warning that the reduction of human beings and nature to mere 'objects' is not good for the spirit of reasoned enquiry.

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