Who knew the Vatican had its own astronomers? I certainly didn’t. It turns out, however, that it does – priests studying space through the aptly named “pope scope”. The Walrus recently interviewed one of these Vatican astronomers, Guy Consolmagno, and asked him about the relationship between science and religion – it turns out its quite healthy. . . . → Read More: Science and Religion
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Below is an interesting discussion between atheist Richard Dawkins and theologian Alister McGrath on the existence of God and the reasonableness of religious faith generally. It was filmed for a 2006 TV Documentary called The Root of all Evil?, presented by Richard Dawkins, but was cut from the final edit. The footage is uncut and therefore . . . → Read More: Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath We live in a photoshopped world. According to Jeannine Stein, staff-writer for the L.A. Times, “it’s quite possible that the vast majority of images seen in the public arena have been altered.” Stein argues: Photoshop, the go-to graphics editing program that got a foothold in the 1990s, has become so ubiquitous that most of us gaze at . . . → Read More: Photoshop of Horrors |
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