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    <title>Nature Network - religion</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for religion</description>
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    <ttl>40</ttl>
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      <title>Religion, Magic and Science</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - Listening to a clergyman on the radio this morning, arguing against the ordination of women bishops, it struck me that the real problem with religion from a scientific viewpoint is not religion itself, but when it strays into magic. As]]>
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      <title>The Boyle Lecture</title>
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        <![CDATA[James Franklin - The Boyle lectures date back to 1692 and investigate the relationship between Science and Christianity. Each year, a distinguished theologian or scientist is invited to address this theme through a topic of his or her own choosing, and a responder]]>
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      <title>God and the Universe</title>
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        <![CDATA[James Franklin - The expanse of the scientific account of the universe and the space left for a belief in God.]]>
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      <title>Scourge of Stars</title>
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        <![CDATA[Henry Gee - A draft of _Scourge of Stars_, Book Two of _The Sigil_, is available "here":http://www.chiswick.demon.co.uk/Scourge.doc for those who wish to comment, either here or offline (all comments gratefully received, irrespective of the means of transmission). It's probably full of holes and]]>
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      <title>hprints.org users</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bertil Dorch - This group is a user group for hprints.org: the Open Access repository for Arts and Humanities. Hprints is a tool for direct scientific communication between academics. Scholars can upload full-text research material such as articles, papers, conference papers, book chapters]]>
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      <title>Be happy in your work</title>
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        <![CDATA[Lee Turnpenny - Scientists investigating early human development inevitably encounter a range of complicating factors, both biological and ethical. Nevertheless, the limitations of animal studies necessitate working directly with human material. Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), whether derived in the laboratory from IVF-‘surplus’]]>
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      <title>The editor (all kneel!)</title>
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        <![CDATA[Charles Darwin - asked particularly that when I wrote for this esteemed organ that I consider controversies such as Intelligent Design. My initial observations are that midwives and parents should be more careful with newborns: a great many appear to have been dropped]]>
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      <title>Where are all the new cliches?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - I find it fascinating that when Henry Gee's blog on Nature Network dipped a toe into the subject of religion (see "this":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/henrygee/2008/03/18/on-the-manifestation-of-excrement and "this":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/henrygee/2008/03/20/on-the-resuspension-of-excrement) it got many more responses than most science-based posts. It's also true that when "New Scientist":http://www.newscientist.com]]>
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      <title>2008 Templeton Prize</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Michael Heller, a Polish cosmologist and Catholic priest, has been awarded the 2008 "Templeton Prize":http://www.templetonprize.org/bios.html. According to the "NY Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/science/12cnd-prize.html?hp, Heller plans "to use his prize to create a center for the study of science and theology at the Pontifical]]>
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      <title>Deadly sins</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Genetic modification is now listed as a mortal sin, separate to 'morally debatable experiments' (which I presume covers ES research). See BBC "news article":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7287071.stm. That's pretty harsh?! GM is a mortal sin -- but at all levels? What about cell]]>
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