It happened on JUNE 18

1926

the astronomer and cosmologist Allan R. Sandage was born in Iowa City. He began his observational career as Edwin Hubble’s assistant. Sandage is credited with the first optical identification of a quasar, 3C 48, belonging to stronger radio waves revealed in the third survey made with the Cambridge Radiotelescope, which measures wavelength shifts in the red spectrum among the farthest known objects. In an interview given in 1997, Sandage reflected on his religious belief.
 

1986

in a Wednesday General Audience on the topic of Divine Providence, Pope John Paul II affirmed: “Therefore the real successes of modern scientific and technological civilization, no less than those of humanistic culture and of the ‘wisdom’ of the centuries, enter into the scope of the ‘providence’ shared with man for the implementation of God's plan in the world.”

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Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science

The Encyclopedia, published by the Centro di Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, provides new, scholarly articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329). INTERS is a free online encyclopedia.

Anthology and Documents

To emphasize and spread relevant documents within the scientific community, this section provides key materials concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology.

   

Special Issues

We offer here a selection of comments and documents on special issues in Religion and Science, collected for anniversaries and/or for the relevance of the topics.