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The natural dignity of every person the root of the inviolability of human rights
This is one of the key concepts expressed by Pope Benedict XVI during an audience for the Bureau Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 8 September.
Bishop Facchini: evolution between continuity and discontinuity
In an article on ' Osservatore Romano of August 22, anthropologist Fiorenzo Facchini explains how the evolution of life is characterized at the same time by continuity and discontinuity.
Gliese 581g: Earth-like?
discovered by the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution in Washington, analyzing the data collected by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, could be the first planet can really host life forms.
Nature: 10 years of Nature Neuroscience
celebrates ten years of Nature Reviews Neuroscience , making available online, for two months, a collection of insights the main articles published in this first decade.
Hawking: Creation without God?
One of the arguments in the last book of prof. Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design , has caused a sensation and is expected to be discussed.
P. Rafael Pascual: an intellectual provocation
For P. Rafael Pascual LC, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum in Rome and director of the Institute Religion and Science, "beyond rhetoric" should "accept the new challenge of Hawking"
Books
This the past. The relevance of history and prehistory
Yves Coppens
The famous paleontologist and anthropologist, in this book of 168 pages published by Jaca Book, answers some fundamental questions about the origins of most interest or of ' ; human
Recent events
The Templars and the cult of relics in the Middle Ages
Conference Barbara Frale, the Vatican Secret Archives official, Cerrini by Dr. Simon, an expert on medieval history (4 Paris Sorbonne University) and Professor Emanuela Marinelli
Primum live
The bioethics agenda of the government
At the meeting of Tuesday 21 September The Italian Government has presented its bioethics agenda, which are programmatic guidelines of the individual, and defense of life and dignity of human beings.
Sindonology week in Genoa Voltri
organized dall'Arciconfraternita A review of Death and Prayer, with Fr Roberto Gottardo, the archdiocese of Turin, and Professor Bruno Barberis, Director of the International Centre Sindonologia of Turin
Science and faith: life choice
With keynote Science and faith Mgr. Zymowski Zygmunt, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, began the program of the tenth National Congress AFAR (Association Fatebenefratelli for Research)
In the name of the Shroud
This is the title of the Conference of the journalist Massimo Boccaletti, organized by the Rotary Club of Sassari, Thursday 30 September at 18.00.
Upcoming Events
New academic year for Master in Science and Faith
With the first lesson of the course Science, philosophy and theology: a dialogue possible? rewarded by CTNS with Science and Religion Course Program Award , Tuesday, Oct. 18 will begin the work of the Master for the Academic Year 2010-2011.
On the Way to the man. The faces of European culture: Stages of teleological anthropology
Conference held in Rome October 13 to 14, by the Foundation Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), in collaboration with the Pontifical Gregorian University, the first of three events taking place in Rome, Istanbul and Moscow.
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Paolo Centofanti
Manager SRM - Science and Religion in Media