Ales Rarus

Coinciding nicely with a discussion about evolution and intelligent design between Jerry and Theomoroph, here are two interesting stories.

Evolutionism and the Limits of Science
Interview With Professor Mariano Artigas (Zenit)

Science marks a key achievement in human history, says a philosopher who nevertheless warns of an "imperialism" that tries to judge everything through the sciences. Mariano Artigas, a member of Brussels' International Academy of the Philosophy of Sciences and of the Vatican's St. Thomas Pontifical Academy, has just published a book on evolutionism and its relationship with philosophy and religion. Entitled "The Frontiers of Evolutionism" and published by Eunsa, the book states that there are questions that science cannot resolve. Artigas, a professor of philosophy of nature and of sciences at the University of Navarre, spoke with ZENIT.

Engineering God in a Petri Dish
By Kari Lynn Dean

On a steep, narrow street above Chinatown works Jonathon Keats, a tweed-suited, bow-tied 32-year-old who, with assistance from a phalanx of scientists, is genetically engineering God in his apartment. Advisers to Keats' organization, the International Association for Divine Taxonomy, include biochemists, biophysicists, ecologists, geneticists and zoologists from the University of California at Berkeley, the Smithsonian and other institutions of scientific repute. The mission: to determine where on the phylogenetic map — the scientific tree of life — to put God.