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Sciences respond to a felt need to understand the world, and religions respond to a felt need for the world to have meaning. From these different starting points, one issue emerges at the junction of any science and any religion: are these felt needs commensurate? That is, is the universe a moral place, so that the natural order is relevant to human lives and human values; do faith and family, love and charity mirror any larger meaning than the meanings we give to them? Today, to a first approximation, the answer to these questions from any religion is Yes, and the answer from any science is No.
The Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR) was founded in the summer of 1999 as a forum for the examination of issues that lie at the boundary of these two complementary ways of comprehending the world and our place in it. By examining the intersections that cross over the boundaries between one or another science and one or another religion, the CSSR hopes to stimulate dialogue and encourage understanding. The CSSR is not interested in promoting one or another science or religion, and we hope that the service we provide will be of benefit and offer understanding into all sciences and religions.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, May 31
CERC Education Programs: The Little Things and Their Influence on Planet Earth
Speaker: James Cervino, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Pace Univ., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Time: 6:10 to 8:40 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1015
Contact: Desmond Beirne, cerc@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-0149
Web Site: http://www.cerc.columbia.edu/?id=certificate
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Dr. Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations
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