Would you Adam and Eve it? Top scientists tell Scottish pupils: the Bible is...
They are among Scotland’s most eminent scientists, they believe the world was created in six days and women were made from Adam’s rib …and they’re coming to a school near you, writes Chris Watt. A new...
View ArticleKirk’s 40th anniversary conference shows science isn’t the final frontier
Since it was established in 1970 the Church of Scotland’s Society, Religion and Technology (SRT) Project has added a great deal to the life of the church and its capacity to comment on difficult issues...
View ArticleChurch project sponsors play with a certain gravity
In an unusual fusion of science, religion and the arts, the Church of Scotland’s Society, Religion and Technology (SRT) Project is sponsoring a performance of a play on the life of the famous scientist...
View ArticleGod Particles and the meaning of life
It was with great interest I read that a senior physicist of Hadron Collider at CERN announced that there was evidence of the existence of the Higgs Boson- the particle that is thought to underpin the...
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‘Scottish school has a seven-person chaplaincy team – including a crazy...
Scotland has a Jam Club. But it has nothing to do with making sticky, sweet stuff that rots your gnashers, writes Barry Duke. Nor is there a musical connection. Oh no. This jam … groan … is Jesus and...
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Three-parent embryo technique is ‘unethical and macabre’, says pro-life group
A pro-life group has condemned plans to create offspring with three genetic parents as “unethical and macabre”. Britain could become the first country to approve the “three-parent” embryo technique, it...
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New ‘Scientists in Congregations’ programme offers £10,000 grants to churches
The University of St Andrews has launched a new grant programme, Scientists in Congregations, Scotland, run by Prof Ivor Davidson and Dr Andrew Torrance, and backed by the University’s School of...
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Quaker astrophysicist who discovered pulsars to be first female president of...
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and the arts, has appointed its first female president. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist credited with one of the...
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Belief in God and evolution are compatible, says Pope
Pope Francis upheld evolution and the Big Bang Theory as legitimate concepts compatible with a belief in God in a recent speech. Addressing the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Monday, Francis said...
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‘MSPs should not tell science teachers what to teach’
A Free Church of Scotland minister has accused the Scottish Secular Society of “raising the false bogeyman of creationism” to “undermine and attack Christianity in pursuit of their sectarian and...
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