All posts tagged: science

St. Hildegard of Bingen, Patron of Creation Care?

Religion / Science / SOSc

There’s a lovely article about Hildegard of Bingen by Erin Risch Zountendam posted this morning on the blog “Earth and Altar.” Hildegard, one of the four female doctors of the Western Church, was a theologian, a prophet, a mystic and a naturalist. Her life and her theology is, to my mind, one of the clearest examples of my argument that most scientists are, in truth, mystics at heart – seeking to understand a deeper meaning […]

Intelligent Design – there’s more to it than many seem to think.

Religion / Science

For the Anti-Evolutionists, Hope in High Places: “Look East or West and you can detect the rumblings from an irreconcilable divide between science and religion.” In a new book, “The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality,” the Dalai Lama laments what he calls “radical scientific materialism,” warning that seeing people as “the products of pure chance in the random combination of genes” is an invitation to nihilism and spiritual poverty. […]