Friday, November 4, 2005

Vatican: Faithful Should Listen to Science

Schrodinger's Cat -- Quantum mechanics has been enormously successful in describing nature at the atomic level. Most physicists believe that it is in principle the “whole truth” about the world, even at the everyday level. Such a view leads to a severe problem: in certain circumstances. The most natural interpretation of the theory implies that no definite outcome of an experiment occurs until the act of “observation.” For many decades this problem was regarded as “merely philosophical.” It was thought to have no consequences testable in experiment, but this situation has now changed dramatically.
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It could be that science and religion are not fundamentally separate. Some physicists feel that the science of reality is a divine expression in quantum mechanics and unified theory.

Vatican: Faithful should listen to science
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason.

Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture, made the comments at a news conference on a Vatican project to help end the "mutual prejudice" between religion and science that has long bedeviled the Roman Catholic Church and is part of the evolution debate in the United States. Read full story.

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