Pope Expresses Science Doesn’t Qualify for the Virtue of Good

January 29, 2008

in News, Off Beatin Path

Science and mankind are one, but science is not the only one
The Holy Father expressed his pleasure of a multi-disciplinary collaboration of science, anthropological, philosophical and theological research.  The Pope expressed his joy at the opening of the conference between the “Academie des Sciences de Paris” and by the Pontifical Academy of Science.

In our time, said the Pope, “the exact sciences, both natural and human, have made prodigious advances in their understanding of man and his universe”. However at the same time “there is a strong temptation to circumscribe human identity and enclose it with the limits of what is known.

Although this is a small step away from technology, it is a good source of reflection.  After all, computers are a science.

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