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We are in the process of transferring the Library content from the old PCNL website. When complete, the Library will contain Essays and Papers, Audio and Video clips, Book Reviews and Suggested Reading Lists and an archive of the Pari Center Newsletters. Topics will range from ethics, economics, new science, religion, philosophy, creativity, education and general cultural issues. A series of audio clips will be available taken from historic interviews with leading scientists including Heisenberg, Dirac, Rosenfeld, Uhlenbeck, Prigogine, Bohm, Wheeler, Salam and Penrose. Video clips will include discussions on David Bohm, Cezanne and the Implicate Order. Blackfoot language and the Newtonian world view. Non-locality and the EPR paradox. The Interpretation of Quantum Theory.

A Dialogue between Three Communities and Science

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28-30 June 2002 On June 28, 2002 a number of participants gathered in the small village of Pari, Italy to take part in a dialogue surrounding the traditions of science and the three Abrahamic religions- Jews, Christians and Muslims. At a time when religions are so often seen as instruments of discord and the seat […]

The Alchemy of Love

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Talk given at the conference “Works of Love: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Altruism” Villanove University, June 2003. In this talk I would like to employ the metaphor of the alchemical vessel in which transformation takes place so that gold is born out of base metal. An essential feature of all alchemical processes is the […]

Creator and Creation

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Introduction Paul Gauguin’s largest work, and probably his masterpiece, shows a group of Tahitian’s against a green-blue background of forest. It’s title “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” sums up the questions that have been asked by all peoples from the dawn of time. Where do we come from? […]

Three Religions — and Science A Position Paper for the Pari Meetings

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Belief Systems in the Developed World So far, our dialogue has been centred mainly around the three great monotheistic religions — Islam, Judaism and Christianity — perhaps rightly so because they have given so much to humankind in the way of beliefs, inspiration and progress. But they have also inspired much antagonism, intolerance, hatred and […]

Spiritual Renewal and the move towards Peace

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Edy Altes was the former Dutch ambassador to Poland and to Spain. He resigned from this position in order to take a public stand on what he felt was the “madness” of the arms race and what he considered to be outdated notions of national security. Since then he has worked on East-West relations, Third […]

Prince Charles as “Defender of Faiths: A dialogue in India”

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This first appeared in The Tablet and has been posted here by kind permission of the Editor, John Wilkins. PRINCE CHARLES had asked that during his visit to India he should meet representatives of the country’s many different faiths to discuss how religion can contribute to a harmonious society, and avoid the strife which gives it a […]

War Yesterday and Today

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Pari’s dialogues on science and religion will be running at two levels – open monthly meetings for people in the immediate area and smaller, closed meetings involving professional scientists and theologians. Since advertising its program the Center has had a very strong response and from a much wider area than anticipated – stretching from Naples […]

Origins and Creation

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Introduction It is arguably difficult to find a more heated topic of discussion than that concerning the origins of the universe, and especially of life and of intelligence, and whether such origins can be understand without evoking a Creator God. Responses range from the extremes of a Stephen Hawking or a Pope Pius XII to […]

The God of the Extra-Terrestrials

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Life in the Universe Evolution is an intrinsic and proper characteristic of the universe. Neither the universe as a whole nor any of its ingredients can be understood except in terms of evolution. And evolution is a daily happening. We, for instance, are constantly exchanging atoms with the total reservoir of atoms in the universe. […]

Appreciating a Scientist-Theologian: Some Remarks on the Work of John Polkinghorn

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Perhaps the greatest irony about the contemporary religion-science dialogue is the fact that, despite their own strongly articulated denials, many thinkers implicitly accept the “warfare” thesis of A. D. White—that is, they agree with White that traditional theology has proved unable to engage science in fruitful conversation. More than most others, John Polkinghorne understands just how badly White […]