It happened on DECEMBER 2

1942

At the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi created the first controlled release of atomic energy, obtaining, by means of neutrons retarded by graphite, a chain reaction in the uranium used in the experiment. It was the last step prior to realizing the nuclear bomb.

Call for Papers - The interdisciplinary language of science, philosophy and religious studies

The DISF Research Center is editing a monographic issue for the Italian Journal of Philosophy of Language (Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio - RIFL), to be published in June 2023, titled The interdisciplinary language of science, philosophy and religious studies, which aims to reflect on what can make a language suitable for interdisciplinary topics encompassing science, philosophy and religious studies.

Submission deadline: February 15^th, 2023

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INTERS.org

200 years since the birth of Gregor Mendel (July 20, 1822)

Anna Pelliccia, Johann Gregor Mendel, his cultural environment and legacy

Ivan Colagè, Gregor Mendel and genetics between discovery and "invention", 200 years after his birth

Daniel J. Fairbanks, Mendel and Darwin: untangling a persistent enigma (2020)

Gregor Mendel, a brief portion of an Easter sermon (ca 1867)

Clemens Richter, Remembering Johann Gregor Mendel: a human, a Catholic priest, an Augustinian monk, and abbot (2015)

Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridation (1865)

Gregor Mendel and the History of Genetics (2020), a video by GCSE Biology

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). INTERS is a free online encyclopedia.

Anthology and Documents

To emphasize and spread relevant documents within the scientific community, this section provides key materials concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology.

Special Issues

We offer here a selection of comments and documents on special issues in Religion and Science, collected for anniversaries and/or for the relevance of the topics.

Websites on Science and Religion

Articles of Historical Interest

A selection of book reviews from "Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology" (ISSR & ESSSAT)

2009

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

in italiano

Break time

Dogs and apes

Ideas

Cristianity is, among the great religions, most explicitly history-conscious, and in this sense evolutionistic. It affirms that the history of mankind and of the world is not merely an illusion or an irremediable evil. History is the vehicle of creation. The world had a beginning, and will have an end.

T. Dobzhanky, The Biology of Ultimate Concern (New York: New American Library,1967), p. 37.