Friday, September 11, 2015

In the News ... "Texas Tech professor mends fences between science and faith"

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• FREE lecture Sunday at Midland College

Trent Johnson, Reporter

Midland Reporter-Telegram

MIDLAND, TEXAS - Religion and science are sometimes at odd with each other on the societal plane of existence. Often times these two sects of life square off in television debates, magazine articles and books to refute one another’s findings. Constantly the two studies are at each other’s throats, but why?

That’s a question Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist and director of the Texas Tech Climate Science Center, ponders often. As the daughter of a teacher of faith and science, Hayhoe has been successful in marrying her religious beliefs with her scientific endeavors.

In advance of her Faith and Science in Harmony presentation at Midland College on Sunday, sponsored by St. Nicholas Episcopal and Midland Lutheran Church, we talked to the professor about global warming politics, how science and religion stem from the same place and the amount of hate mail she gets ...

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