{"id":35138,"date":"2012-10-16T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_science_faith_can_work_together_to_help_the_world_scientist_tells_roman\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:01:05","slug":"cns_science_faith_can_work_together_to_help_the_world_scientist_tells_roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35138","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Science, faith can work together to help the world, scientist tells Roman Catholic bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science and faith need each other for the benefit of all of creation, a Nobel-prize winning geneticist told Pope Benedict XVI and the world&#8217;s bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Werner Arber, a Swiss microbiologist who serves as the president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, also said that, while there is still no proof, he is one of a number of scientists who believe there may be life on some planets outside of Earth&#8217;s solar system&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Jesus Christ would live among us today, he would be in favor of the application of solid scientific knowledge for the long-term benefit of humans and their natural environment, as long as such applications&#8221; fully respected the laws of nature, said Arber, one of three winners of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1204346.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and faith need each other for the benefit of all of creation, a Nobel-prize winning geneticist told Pope Benedict XVI and the world&#8217;s bishops. Werner Arber, a Swiss microbiologist who serves as the president of the Pontifical Academy of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35138\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,154,108,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}