Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” has published the Holy See’s position paper ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, “Rio+20”.
The position paper which the Holy See will present at “Rio+20”, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, published in the Vatican daily broadsheet L’Osservatore Romano, came out almost unnoticed yesterday afternoon. “Rio+20” will be held next week in the Brazilian capital, exactly 20 years after the first event in 1992.
A book that might almost have been entitled, ‘From Plankton to Prayer’. Bizarre, to be sure; but one does not often come across someone who is an expert in the biology of oceans and the relationship between plankton and the movements of fish, and who also has a deep interest in the relationship between the theory of evolution and research into religious experience. Such a man was Alister Hardy. He did oceanographical research on board little fishing boats from Hull, as well as on the Royal Research Ship,Discovery deep in the Antarctic. He held professorships in Biology in Hull, Aberdeen and Oxford. Yet the more complex depths of his character came from an important experience he had as a schoolboy at Oundle…
According to a study, reported by the Sydney Morning Herold and LifeSiteNews.com, women can expect to live longer with each child they bear, a pattern especially noticeable for those with many children, according to Australian researchers, who nonetheless said that women shouldn’t have too many children because large families are bad for the environment.
The Sydney Morning Herald on Friday reported the results of a study by researchers at the University of New South Wales, which analyzed 1,200 women over the age of 60 since 1988.
Cambridge October 2011 – William Lane Craig responds in a public lecture to the claims in Stephen Hawking’s recent book The Grand Design. Speaking to a capacity audience at St Andrew the Great church, Cambridge, Prof Craig outlined the weaknesses of the central arguments of the book. Rev Dr Rodney Holder, an astrophysicist, responded to Prof Craig.
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Alexander Tsiaras, Chief of Scientific Visualization in the department of Medicine at Yale University, employs new kinds of visualization technologies to view the human body. What he has discovered, he says, “just made you marvel.” Using micro-magnetic resonance imaging, Tsiaras tracked the development of the baby from conception to birth.
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Human clones have a soul? Tim Stacks, apologist for “Catholic Answers” (San Diego, CA) answers a question during the daily radio program “Catholic Answers Live.” Check the video (5:12 min.)
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