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1433

Marsilius Ficinus died in Careggi (near Florence, Italy). An exponent of Renaissance Neo-Platonism, he translated Plato’s works and maintained there was substantial agreement between Platonism and Christianity. He authored the apologetic work De Christiana Religione (1474).

1904

The nuclear physicist Otto Robert Frisch was born in Vienna. In 1933, he measured the magnetic momentum of the proton, and in 1940, in collaboration with Rudolf Peierls, designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb.

Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science

The Encyclopedia, published by the Centro di Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, provides new, scholarly articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329).

Anthology and Documents

In order to make some relevant documents better known in the scientific community, the section provides key materials for study and reflection concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy, and theology.

Going in depth

Comments and Documents on special issues on Religion and Science

Website Facts and Figures

Contains more than 100 anthological texts from classical authors, modern and contemporary philosophers and scientists
Contains more than 60 articles of the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science
Contains about 100 documents from the Catholic Church Magisterium on Christian Revelation, culture, and scientific thought

Break time

Dogs and apes

The Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science website seeks to help scientists frame their work within a philosophical and humanistic context. It also seeks to aid people trained in theology to approach, through the humanistic reflections of scientists, the rationale of scientific activity. The website presents an ample anthology of selected documents and also offers, in a separate section, the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329), a dynamic, online-only database. The Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science website is edited by the Advanced School for Interdisciplinary Research (ADSIR), operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

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Articles from the Press

"Religion and science can have a true dialogue", by Kathryn Pritchard Nature, September 22, 2016
"Is science only for the rich?", By Jane J. Lee Nature, September 21, 2016
"Science in the age of selfless", by Donald Geman and Stuart Geman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Meet the challenge of interdisciplinary science" Nature, June 29, 2016

2009

Documents for the 2009 Anniversary:
International Year of Astronomy
and II Centenary
of Darwin’s birth

Ideas

The concept of law is so well established in science that until recently few scientists stopped to think about the nature and origin of these laws; they were happy to simply accept them as "given." Now that physicists and cosmologists have made rapid progress toward finding what they regard as the "ultimate" laws of the universe, many old questions have resurfaced. Why do the laws have the form they do? Might they have been otherwise? Where do these laws come from? Do they exist independently of the physical universe?

(P. Davies, The mind of God, Simon & Schuster, London 1992, p. 73)