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Ideology Subsumes Empiricism in Pope's Climate Encyclical
2015-06-18 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Religion and science are at best strange bedfellows, as the Catholic Church has found since the time of its unfortunate experience with Galileo. So it is significant that Pope Francis, who has shown great appetite for departing from some of the harsh rhetoric and methods of his predecessors, is issuing an encyclical on the environment at a time when the world's leaders are once again considering a global approach to dealing with climate change. Whenever religious figures enter into a debate on...
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