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Top Vatican scientist calls on scientists who believe to ‘come out’
- Vatican
- May 8, 2017
The Vatican Observatory is hosting a major May 9-12 conference on “Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Space-Time Singularities,” underlining the point that science and religion can actually get along. The director of the observatory says it might help if more scientists who are believers “came out,” sharing their faith.
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Thousands rally for truth, evidence-based policies at March for Science
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- April 24, 2017
Scientists were some of the people most concerned about a Trump administration given everything Trump had said about global warming being a hoax on the campaign trail. Now that he has appointed climate change deniers, scientists decided that they have to become more political to fight back.
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Pope: Scientists must defend creation from use of biotech
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- April 11, 2017
Pope Francis warned against the dangers of biotechnology during an audience with the Italian National Committee for Biosecurity, Biotechnologies and Life Sciences. “You also are asked to foresee and prevent the negative consequences that can cause a distorted use of the knowledge and ability to manipulate life,” he said.
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Vatican ponders power, limits of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is “an extremely important goal that has not been achieved yet,” said Stanislas Dehaene, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the College de France, adding that “we don’t want to create a system full of machines that don’t share our intuitions of what should be a better world.”

The pope's ecological vow

Life

June 29, 2015

In the days just before its publication, those involved in drafting the pope’s controversial eco-encyclical Laudato Si’ were much exercised about how it would be received by conservative critics. But Pope Francis, Vatican insiders tell me, was unfazed. He remains so in the face of the onslaught of criticism that