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Tag: Science and Religion

Featured Poetry

Liam Wholihan – Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup

August 6, 2023August 3, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Liam Wholihan offers a lament for several different things in his complex "Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup".

Tagged elegy, loss, miracle, miracles, miraculous birth, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, virgin birthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Brigitte Goetze – How We Come to Understand or the Heart, the Right Brain, and the Left Brain Muse about Science’s Most Famous Equation

June 5, 2022June 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and retired biologist Brigitte Goetze digs into her scientific background to offer readers something beautiful and wholly original.

Tagged beauty, biology, brain, Heart, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Carolyn Decker – An Approximation

December 19, 2021December 18, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

An Approximation, by Rhode Island scientist and poet Carolyn Decker, is an ode to the interconnectedness of everything and a clarion call for wisdom in a world of desires.

Tagged ecology, environment, Interconnectedness, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, WisdomLeave a comment
Albert Einstein
Book Bits

Religion Without Science is Blind (Part 2)

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

Einstein goes on to explore definitions of science and religion and sees no fundamental conflict between them, except for when each try to encroach on the other's territory: science can only claim what is and not what should be, and religion can have no declaration of fact.

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Albert Einstein
Book Bits

What We Have Forgotten – Einstein on Science and Religion (Part 1)

March 20, 2020March 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

Albert Einstein called for the scientific method to be accompanied by a deep humanism often grounded in religious practice. He argued that the role of religion would be to set into the emotional life of humans the means and ends of their rational endeavors.

Tagged Belief, Einstein, knowledge, rationalism, Science and Religion, tradition1 Comment

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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
  • Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell
    Allow the summer heat of Constance Clark's "This Heat Sculpts a Spell" soak into you, as her poem unfolds its petals as an ode to connection.
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