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Vatican City, Nov 8, 2012 \/ 04:22 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict XVI said cooperation between science and faith is necessary for world peace and man's destiny, as he addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences this morning.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith in the building of a culture of respect for man, for human dignity and freedom, for the future of our human family and for the long-term sustainable development of our planet,\u201d he said in a speech given Nov. 8 at Clementine Hall.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWithout this necessary interplay, the great questions of humanity leave the domain of reason and truth, and are abandoned to the irrational, to myth, or to indifference, with great damage to humanity itself, to world peace and to our ultimate destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis morning the Pope received in audience the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which took place Nov. 5-7. The theme was \u201cComplexity and Analogy in Science: Theoretical, Methodological, and Epistemological Aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAbout 70 scientists, philosophers, and theologians \u2013 most of them members of the academy \u2013 participated in the Plenary Session and many are joining in a following Nov. 8-10 working group on \u201cNeurosciences and the Human Person: New Perspectives on Human Activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tPope Benedict said the topics of complexity and analogy in science point toward \u201ca new vision of the unity of the sciences.\u201d The gift of reason allows man to \u201cconstantly expand his knowledge of truth and order it wisely for his good and that of his environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAn interdisciplinary approach to complexity also shows too that the sciences are not intellectual worlds disconnected from one another and from reality,\u201d he said, \u201cbut rather that they are interconnected and directed to the study of nature as a unified, intelligible and harmonious reality in its undoubted complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis in turn shows the complementarity of scientific study with philosophy and theology in the Christian tradition.<\/p>\n

\tThe idea of \u201cparticipated being\u201d in Christian thought is a \u201cfruitful point of contact\u201d with complexity and analogy in science.<\/p>\n

\tParticipated being holds that \u201ceach individual creature, possessed of its proper perfection, also shares in a specific nature and this within an ordered cosmos originating in God\u2019s creative Word.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt is precisely this inbuilt 'logical' and 'analogical' organization of nature that encourages scientific research and draws the human mind to discover the horizontal co-participation between beings and the transcendental participation by the First Being.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe assembly examined the intelligibility of nature from a variety of perspectives, ranging from physics and maths, to environmental sciences, to free will and neuroscience, to the origins of the human mind.<\/p>\n

\tPope Benedict concluded by thanking the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for its efforts in strengthening the relationship between reason and faith, and drew their attention to the Year of Faith.<\/p>\n

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