1. Please feel free to chat amongst yourselves until we begin at the top of the hour.

2. Seminar Agenda Guidelines & Netiquette for Discussion Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership Questions & Answers

3. Guidelines & Netiquette 1. Respect other people's beliefs and rights 2. Avoid hurting someone's feelings and insulting others 3. Respect the privacy of other people 4. If someone offends you, stay calm and react reasonably and rationally

4. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership What common ground do religious groups and science share in this appeal?

5. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership In general, what are the common interests of science and religion?

6. What are some current disputes? Active conflict between science and religion: There have been hundreds of disputes since the end of the 16th century in which scientists and theologians have taught opposing beliefs. At any given time, in recent centuries, there has been at least one active, major battle. Dozens are active at the present time.

7. What are stem cells?

8. Stem cells sources

9. Adult vs embroynic

10. “Allowing any medical research using stem cell research should be forbidden because it is unethical and immoral.” Percentage of the U.S. public tending to agree or disagree with this statement

11. A few more conflicts…..

12. Gender Identity

13. Science/Religion Both science and religion represent distinct ways of approaching experience and these differences are sources of debate. Science is closely tied to mathematics—a very abstract experience, while religion is more closely tied to the ordinary experience of life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_reli gion_and_science

14. Einstein was asked if he was religious "Yes, you can call it that," he replied. "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious." He spent the rest of his life trying to explain what he really meant. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3341576&page=1

16. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership It turns out that many scientists are religious believers—how can these two ways of viewing the world work well together?

17. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership “Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.... We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be." Pope John Paul II

18. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein

19. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership "Traditional religious creation stories and evolution are complementary. Science and religion together can weave a rich tapestry of new meaning for our age." Theologian Philip Hefner

20. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership "Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but both look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect." Physicist Freeman Dyson

21. Science & Culture: An Uneasy Partnership "Credo ut Intelligam" ( I believe in order to understand) St. Augustine