O Lord, how manifold are thy works!
In wisdom hast thou made them all:
the earth is full of thy riches. (Psalm
104:24)
What is the NRCSE?
Often with scientific issues that have religious
implications, as in
debates between proponents of evolutionary science and proponents of
creationism or intelligent design, it seems as if there is a
fundamental conflict between science and religion. We in the
Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education (NRCSE) are
Nebraskans of various religious faiths who respect both science and
theology. Our mission is to proclaim the compatibility of good
science (including evolution) and good theology (including
creation). The NRCSE recognizes the duty of Nebraska's schools to
help students understand the best available science. We believe
that evolution can and should be widely taught in a scientifically
sound manner
that is neutral regarding philosophical or religious worldviews.
We are convinced that academic freedom, religious freedom, and
scientific integrity are compatible.
Coming and Recent Events:.
- From December 10, 2010 through February
1, 2011, Michael Dowd
recorded dialogues with 38 leaders on the cutting edge of
science and religion. "Participants included renowned theologians,
pastors, Nobel laureates,
and Templeton prize-winners, all of whom exemplify, in word and deed,
that
Christian faith can be strengthened and enriched by a science-honoring,
evolutionary view of the world." All of these dialogues are available
on
the internet at http://evolutionarychristianity.com/blog/speaker-bios.
There
you
will
also
find
a
helpful
list
of
links
to
diverse
organizations
involved
in science-religion dialogue.
Links:.
Latest News (2008-2011):
- Evangelicals
Question
The Existence Of Adam And Eve by Barbara Bradley
Hagerty, National
Public Radio, August 9, 2011
- Is
Accepting
Evolution
'Optional' For Christians? by Karl Giberson, Huffington
Post,
June 3, 2011
- Pope Benedict XVI's 2011 Easter
Vigil Homily: We
Celebrate the First Day of the New Creation
- Did Darwin Kill God? BBC documentary available
on-line via Vox Nova, posted April 19, 2011
- Ultra-Darwinism and Creation’s
Sabbath Interview
with
Conor
Cunningham,
author
of Darwin's
Pious
Idea:
Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get it Wrong,
by Eric Austin Lee of TheOtherJournal.com:
- Pope
Reflects on the Magi, Independent
Catholic News, January 7, 2011
- Biologist
Says Baptist Leader Lets Theology Trump Science by Bob
Allen, Associated
Baptist Press, January 5, 2011
- Science and Religion Aren't Friends
by Jerry A. Coyne, USA Today, October 11. 2010
- Response from Michael Zimmerman at Huffington Post to Jerry Coyne:
- Responses from
Karl Giberson at BioLogos to
Jerry Coyne:
- When Atheists and
Baptists Agree by Rachel Held Evans, Associated Baptist Press, October 4, 2010
- Genesis
and
the
Genome:
Genomics
Evidence for Human-Ape Common Ancestry and
Ancestral Hominid Population Sizes by
Dennis R. Venema in Perspectives
on
Science
and
Christian
Faith ,Vol.
62,
#3, September 2010
- Myths
Widen
the
Science-Religion
Divide by
Elaine
Howard
Ecklund, USA Today,
July 18, 2010
- Pope's
Astronomer:
'Science
Helps
Me
Be
a
Priest' by
Eugenie Samuel Reich, New
Scientist, July
14, 2010
- Reconciling Science and Religion: How Did
These Great Minds Do It? by
Krista Tippett, The
Huffington Post, July 6, 2010
- Damning
Criticism: Historical Perspectives on the Evolution/Intelligent Design
Conflict by Richard M. Simon, Journal of
Religion and Society, Vol. 12, 2010
- Head
of Dialogue Sees Optimism in Science-Religion Relationship by
Felix Rivera, AmericanCatholic.org,
June 26, 2010
- Theologian:
Religion
and
Science
Are
not
'Incompatible
Opposites' by
Felix Rivera, AmericanCatholic.org,
June 25, 2010
- Christian
Author
Embraces
Scientific
Theory by
Stephanie
Bertholdo,
The Acorn, May 20, 2010
- Human Origins Initiative Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History, March 2010
- The
End
of
Intelligent
Design? by Stephen Barr, First Things, February 9, 2010
- The New Atheism, Catholic
Comments podcast
of
an
interview
with
Dr.
John
Haught,
January
4,
2010
- The
Challenge
of
Telling
the
Story
of
Creation
in
a
Scientific
and
Technological
World Lutheran
Partners, November/December
2009
- Vatican Searches for
Extra-terrestrial Life, Physorg.com,
November 10,
2009
- Evolution Issue 'Stirs Emotions All Over
Country,' Says Biologist by Gene Stowe, Catholic
News
Service, November 03, 2009
- Creationism,
Minus
a
Young
Earth,
Emerges
in
the
Islamic
World by
Kenneth Chang, The
New York Times, November 2,
2009
- How
Creationist
'Origin'
Distorts
Darwin by
Eugenie Scott, US
News and World Report God &
Country blog,October 30, 2009
- Islam’s
Darwin
Problem by Drake Bennett, The Boston Globe, October 25, 2009
- Believing
in
God
and
Evolution by Scott Jaschik,
Inside
Higher
Ed, October
14,
2009
- Human Genome
and Embryology Experts Named to Pontifical Academy of Sciences,
Catholic
News
Agency,
October 12, 2009
- Creating
Controversy by Jack Stripling, Inside Higher
Ed, September
1,
2009
- We
Believe
in
Evolution
—
and
God by
Karl
Giberson
and
Darrel
Falk,
USA Today, August 10, 2009
- The
Vision
Lives
On by
Darrel Falk of
BioLogos, posted on their Beliefnet blog "Science and the Sacred,"
August 7, 2009
- The
Great
Accommodationism
Debate by
John
Wilkins
on
his
blog
"Evolving
Thoughts,"
June
26,
2009
- Science
and
Religion:
A
History
of
Conflict? by James Hannam, "Comment is Free" blog of The
Guardian (UK), June 14, 2009
- West
of
Eden by
NCSE's
Faith
Project
Director
Peter
M.
J.
Hess in
the Washington
Post's
on-line "On Faith" feature June 16, 2009
- The
Public
Understanding
of
Evolution
and
the
KISS
Principle RealPlayer video of
NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott at the Evolution 2009
conference on June 12, 2009
- 'Evolution
is
God's
Work' by Anjana Ahuja, who interviewed Michael
Reiss for The Times
(London), June 4, 2009
- Augustine's
Origin
of
Species by Alister McGrath, Christianity
Today, May 8, 2009
- Think
Again:
God
Talk by
Stanley Fish, New
York Times, May 3, 2009
- Teaching
Science, With Faith in Mind by Arri Eisen and David Westmoreland, Chronicle
of
Higher
Education, May 1, 2009
- God
Outside
the
Gaps by Andrew Brown, "Comment is Free" blog of The
Guardian (UK), April 29, 2009
- Evolution
is
Not
to
Blame
for
Atheism,
Says
US
Professor by
Carol
Glatz, Catholic
News Service, March 6, 2009
- Why Christians
Should Celebrate Darwin by Denis Alexander, Ekklesia, February 13, 2009
- Darwin
Was
Right.
Up
To
a
Point by
Simon
Conway
Morris,
The Guardian
(UK),
February 12, 2009
- Finding
Sanctuary
in
Faith
and
Physics by Alaina G. Levine, APS Physics, February, 2009
- Vatican
Buries
the
Hatchet
with
Charles
Darwin by
Richard Owen, The
Times (London), February 11,
2009
- Science
and
Religion
Don’t
Have
to
be
Enemies by
Julian Baggini, The
Herald (Glasgow), February
10, 2009
- Does
the Empirical Nature of
Science Contradict the Revelatory Nature of Faith?
- Where
Faith
Meets
Fact:
Author's Attempt
to Reconcile Science and Religion is Met with Attacks from Both Camps by
Peter Rowe, in the San
Diego
Union
Tribune, February
2, 2009
- Darwin's
Twin Track: 'Evolution and Emancipation', by Adrian Desmond for BBC News.
- Chapter
1
of
'Darwin's
Sacred
Cause' by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, New York Times, January 30, 2009
- Darwin:
Shaped
by
Slavery by
Adrian
Desmond, The Times
(London), January 22, 2009
- Evolutionary
Creation
by
Denis
Lamoureux
– A Brief Introduction by
John Lang, December 31, 2008
- Rabbis
Back
Evolution
and
Oppose
Creationism
in
Letter
Parallel
to
Christian
Clergy's
Statement, by
Robert Mitchum of the Chicago
Tribune, as carried by the
Baltimore Sun, September 21, 2008. For the Chicago Tribune link, please click here.
- The
Church
of England's web
site
on
Darwin was
launched September 15, 2008
- Evolution
and
Creationism, an
interview of Francisco Ayala by Harvey Leifert for the HHMI Bulletin, August 2008
- The New Atheism and the
Scientific-Naturalist Tradition lecture by Nancey Murphy, sponsored by The
Kripke Center of Creighton University, January 31, 2008
- Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?, the Templeton Foundation
- Response
to
"Expelled:
No
Intelligence
Allowed" from
the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
- Review
of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" by Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University
- Review
of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" by Frank Percival, Westmont College
- Review
of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" by Jeffrey Schloss, Westmont College
- Expelled Exposed, from the National Center for Science
Education
- Manufactroversy:
The
Art
of
Creating
Controversy
Where
None
Existed by Leah Ceccarelli, University of
Washington, April 11th, 2008
- The New Theology by Jeremy Manier, The Chicago Tribune, January 19, 2008
- Science,
Evolution, and Creationism, National Academies of Science, January 3, 2008
- Survey:
61
Percent
Agree
with
Evolution, LiveScience, January 2, 2008
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