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The Group of Research CRYF has been created in the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) in order to promote interdisciplinary study of issues where science, philosophy and theology intertwine.

CRYF stands for the Spanish full name “Science, Reason, and Faith” (“Ciencia, Razon y Fe”). We note that in Welsh “cryf” is related with “strength”. We like to think that an harmonious relationship between science, reason and faith can provide great strength to individuals and to the solution of deep problems in human life.

Although it was created in 2002, its origin can be traced back to the meetings that several members, jointly with other professors, held since three years before.

Just now its specific areas of interest are the following:

• Origin of the universe
• Evolution
• Order, complexity, and finality
• Nature and person
• Science and truth
• Science and religion

Latest incorporations

• Review of S. Hawking – L. Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Bantam Books, New York 2010 (mar-11)
• Address of the Pope to the Academy of Sciences (dec-10)
• God in the light of science (sep-10)
• ‘A Day Without Yesterday’: Georges Lemaitre & the Big Bang (sep-09)
• My Vision on Interdisciplinarity (jan-09)
• The debate around the status of the homo floresiensis (nov-07)
• God and Evolution (oct-07)
• Online lesson about the Galileo Affair (sep-07)
• Updated New light on the Galileo Affair (jul-06)
• Science, Reason and Faith in the Third Millenium (jul-06)
• Lecture New light on the Galileo affair (jun-06)
• Finding Design in Nature (jun-06)
• The Miracle of Evolution (may-06)
• The Galileo Affair (apr-06)
• The Designs of Science (jan-06)
• The Design of Evolution (nov-05)
• The anthropic principle: science, philosophy or guesswork? (nov-05)

Previous incorporations

Novelties

Mariano Artigas Memorial Lecture
The Galileo Affair. What theology could learn from scientists
William Shea
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 12 h.
Main Hall (Aula Magna), Central Building

Science and Faith within Reason
Navarro J, ed.. Lectures of Metaphysics, Ontology and the Science-Religion Debate. Workshop in Memory of Spanish Philosopher Mariano Artigas. London, 7th to 9th May, 2009

Lecture Mind, brain and life: An embodied view on cognitive neuroscience. Thomas Fuchs, part 1 and part 2 (sep-10)

Lecture God and America’s War on Darwin. Karl Giberson (may-10)

Metaphysics, Ontology and the Science-Religion Debate
Workshop in memory of Professor Mariano Artigas
London, 7-9 May, 2009
Lectures & Contributed Papers

Lecture Nature, Language, and Human Sciences by Russell G. Wilcox. Audio Feb 17, 2009

Report of the CRYF Study Session on the X anniversary of the encyclical Fides et Ratio. Pamplona, November 27, 2008

Sir John Templeton passes away

Review of Oracles of Science, by Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas

Online lesson about the Galileo Affair

Death of Mariano Artigas (dec-06)

MercatorNet interviews Santiago Collado (feb-06)

Previous novelties