This is the text of a talk that I gave to the sisters and their guests at Burnham Abbey on the 10th of August on the relationship between science and religion. The existence of the role of Science Missioner does raise some questions. The first of these is, “can science and religion really ‘fit’ together?” […]
Science and Ethics
What is the relationship between science and ethics? At first glance, this seems an easy question to answer – ethics regulates how we do science and what we do with science. But science can and should also inform our ethics in other areas of life. I recently attended a conference on animal ethics, which was […]
God and Science
What has science got to do with God? I can tell you straight away what science hasn’t got to do with God. Science is not about proving or disproving God’s existence. Science is the study of the material universe. God, as creator of the material world is, by God’s very nature, not a part of […]