Initiatives to bridge faith and science

Alternative to faith-based science.

Faith in science.

Faith is the desire to believe in something as true, or, if not absolutely true, then at least dependable. Faith seems to have been promoted through evolutionary trends, and, as such, it is a concoction of deep brain processes. Related to faith is the concept of truth. Truth is an ephemeral mental construct. We each have some idea of the meaning of truth. Most of the time, our ideas of truth re...

Cosmology : Science between Facts and Faith

Cosmology: Science between Facts and Faith Laszlo A. Marosi 67061 Ludwigshafen am Rhein E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract The standard cosmological model rests on a never-ending array of hypotheses and assumptions (dark matter, dark energy and others) which either cannot be proved or, although theoretically possible, cannot yet be proved experimentally. This lack of secure knowledge raises ...

e-Science initiatives in Venezuela

Within the context of the nascent e-Science infrastructure in Venezuela, we describe several web-based scientific applications developed at the Centro Nacional de Cálculo Cient́ıfico Universidad de Los Andes (CeCalCULA), Mérida, and at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cient́ıficas (IVIC), Caracas. The different strategies that have been followed for implementing quantum chemistry and a...

Alcoholics anonymous effectiveness: faith meets science.

Research on the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is controversial and subject to widely divergent interpretations. The goal of this article is to provide a focused review of the literature on AA effectiveness that will allow readers to judge the evidence effectiveness of AA for themselves. The review organizes the research on AA effectiveness according to six criterion required for es...