Vänner.
”Kyrkan bör aldrig hindra vetenskapen. Men det är precis vad inkvisitionen gjorde i sin dom över Galileo och det var fel, konstaterar George Coyne, jesuitpräst som har varit Vatikanens chefsastronom i över ett kvartssekel.”
Jag länkar till en intressant artikel i tidskriften ”Forskning och Framsteg”. Den behandlar bland annat frågor som tro och vetande, kreationism och vetenskap.
http://www.fof.se/tidning/2009/5/pavens-astronom-tror-pa-big-bang
Gert Gelotte
Jag vet att Rickard Williamsson kommer til Sverige och Östergötland och Södermanlan inom kort.
Vi skall protestera.
Jag läste:
The Prosecutor’s Office in Regensburg is still waiting for statements from two journalists of Swedish Television, said the Chief Prosecutor Guenther Ruckdäschel on Tuesday tp Bayerischer Rundfunk. Ruckdäschel said that so far there has been no response from Sweden to the letters containing their questions.
Williamson denied in an interview the true proportions the Holocaust and at the same time the existence of Nazi gas chambers. Also the British Bishop of the ultra-conservative SSPX claimed not six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, but between 200,000 and 300.000.
The Regensburg investigators now want to know from the TV journalist and cameraman whether Williamson actually had insisted that the interview should only be broadcast in Sweden. Williamson denies intentionally breaking German law.
His lawyer explained that Williamson believed that the interview given at the beginning of November in Zaitzkofen near Regensburg would be broadcast in Sweden. There is the denial of the Holocaust is not punishable. The Regensburg Prosecutor has been investigating Williamson of promoting racial hatred since January.
Apropå Gud, bibel, tro och vetenskap har ”Woodstock theological center”
publicerat en artikel om Gud, evolutionen, Darwin och teologi ( av Aloysious Mowe, S.J.) ur vilken jag saxar nedanstående.
“We should never think of divine providence or divine wisdom or any divine qualities, at least in a Biblical setting, without thinking of the fundamental Biblical motif of promise – that God is the God of promise and fidelity to promise,” said
Haught. He defined “promise” as something that opens up the future, and suggested that “the ultimate Biblical explanation for what we call evolution is God’s opening up the future, not just to the people of Israel, not just to Abraham, not
just to the Church, not just to human history – but opening up a future for the whole of life, and, together with that, the whole of the universe.” The key element of God’s part in the universe is promise rather than design, which Haught said was “too lifeless and deadening a way to reflect the Biblical sense of the…intricate involvement of the divine in the world.” If we think of nature and life as promise, we find it to be consistent with the human experience at this moment in the unfolding of life, realizing as we do that we live in an unfinished universe, one that is still coming into being.”
“…the capacity for evolutionary change is built into nature and as such, a person of faith can very easily understand evolution as part of God’s providential plan.”
”The incarnation did not result in a Divinity pretending to be flesh.”
http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/report/Woodstock_Report_94_June-2009.pdf
Ett motto för Woodstock är bla
”PASSING THE CATHOLIC AND JESUIT INTELLECTUAL TRADITION TO A NEW
GENERATION”
// Irène
Gert,
Det är nyttigt att påminnas om att alla katoliker inte är astronomivänliga. För mig är det en självklarhet att astronomin försöker besvara frågor som hur och när universum bildades, medan religionen svarar på frågan varför och av vem.
/Anneli