Million-Dollar Science Prize Awarded


	Million-Dollar Science Prize Awarded

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3-12-2008 3:08 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4294d78a-8aa6-4e0f-a62c-8b74f6192c32/AAA6AB32-3321-40DD-95A8-C18BE7A30EAB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/science/12cnd-prize.html?_r=1&ex=1363060800&en=2da06e33a11e66c3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/science/12cnd-prize.html?_r=1&ex=1363060800&en=2da06e33a11e66c3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/science/12cnd-prize.html?_r=1&ex=1363060800&en=2da06e33a11e66c3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin">The $1.6 million 2008 Templeton Prize, the richest award made to an individual by a philanthropic organization, was given Wednesday to Michael Heller, 72, a Polish Roman Catholic priest, cosmologist,  and philosopher who has spent his life asking, and perhaps more impressively, answering, questions like “Does the universe need to have a cause?”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/science/12cnd-prize.html?_r=1&ex=1363060800&en=2da06e33a11e66c3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin"><P>Much of Professor Heller’s career has been dedicated to reconciling the known scientific world with the unknowable dimensions of God. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/science/12cnd-prize.html?_r=1&ex=1363060800&en=2da06e33a11e66c3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin"><P>In doing so, he has argued against a “God of the gaps” strategy for relating science and religion, a view that uses God to explain what science cannot.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/science/12cnd-prize.html?_r=1&ex=1363060800&en=2da06e33a11e66c3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin"><P>Professor Heller said he believes, for example, that the religious objection to teaching evolution “is one of the greatest misunderstandings” because it “introduces a contradiction or opposition between God and chance.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AAA6AB32-3321-40DD-95A8-C18BE7A30EAB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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