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ISCAST is a network of people, from students to distinguished academics,
exploring the interface of science, technology, and Christian faith.
The patron of ISCAST is Professor Graeme Clark AC FAA FRS, bionic ear pioneer.

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The ISCAST 2020 Conversations

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Special offers: "SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY" BY CHRIS MULHERIN

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ISCAST Executive Director Chris Mulherin has written an easy-to-read introduction to science and Christianity. Sign up as an ISCAST member to get a free copy. Or Garratt Publishing have a "buy 5 and get 1 free" deal here. You can find out more about the book here.

"Unlikely Allies" now available to order!

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In Unlikely Allies: Monotheism and the Rise of Science, Mark Worthing investigates the claims of religious traditions that they played a unique role in the rise of the natural sciences. Click here to buy the book.

"A Reckless God?" Out Now!

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A Reckless God? Currents and Challenges in the Christian Conversation with Science, edited by ISCAST Executive Director Chris Mulherin, Roland Ashby, John Pilbrow and Stephen Ames, is the first in the "ISCAST Nexus" series. Click here to buy the book.

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More books! ... available at the ISCAST book library in East Melbourne. See here.

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WORTH PONDERING ...

Science can never be more than an affirmation of certain things we believe in. These beliefs must be adopted responsibly, with due consideration of the evidence and with a view to universal validity. But eventually they are ultimate commitments, issued under the seal of our personal judgment. At some point we shall find ourselves with no other answer to queries than to say “because I believe so.” That is what no set of rules, or any model of science based on a system of rules, can do; it cannot say “because I believe so.” Only a person can believe something, and only I myself can hold my own beliefs. For the holding of these I must bear the ultimate responsibility; it is futile, and I think also ignoble, to hunt for systems and machines which will take that burden from 35 me. And we, as a community, must also face the fact that there is no system of necessary rules which will relieve us from the responsibility of holding the constitutive beliefs of our group or of teaching them to the next generation and defending their continued profession against those who would suppress them.

Michael Polanyi, "Scientific Beliefs", Ethics, 61 (1) Oct. 1950, 27–37.
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