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Science and religion have never been easy bedfellows. As Thomas Jefferson put it in 1820, priests “dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight”. Five centuries of scientific breakthroughs — from Galileo to Darwin to Crick and Watson — have eroded our belief in the divine. But now, according to a new book, a “great reversal” is under way. Science, its authors argue over 580 pages, has come full circle and “forcefully put the question of the existence of a creator God back on the table”. In a striking challenge to the academic consensus, two French...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In the not-too-distant future, songs such as "You Are Near," "I Will Bless Yahweh" and "Rise, O Yahweh" will no longer be part of the Catholic worship experience in the United States. At the very least, the songs will be edited to remove the word "Yahweh" -- a name of God that the Vatican has ruled must not "be used or pronounced" in songs and prayers during Catholic Masses. Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, announced the new Vatican "directives on the use of 'the name of...

Tuesday, November 22, 2005 21:23 IST JNW EDITORIAL There is no God like YHVH By Stan Goodenough November 22nd, 2005 Israelis are once again being roiled in turmoil, upheaval, and uncertainty after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suddenly decided this week to abandon his party and form a new one with which to try to secure a third term in office. If the panicky findings published by political pollsters 24 hours after Sharon left the Likud turn out to be accurate, the prime minister may walk away with the early elections that now look set to take place sometime next March....