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Thank you Jean-Marie for sharing this website. It is very interesting to see that more and more science and religion are "buriing the hatchet" even if we are far away to have a peaceful discussion between the two. Often, I have seen religious people (and I might say extremists) rejecting sciences as a whole (for example the war between creationism and evolution). But often I have seen and heard scientists rejecting religion 'en bloc' sans essayer de comprendre quel est le rôle de la religion dans nos vies. Trying to link science and religion is in my opinion crossing the boundaries. Being educated in a non-religious family and having often meet people who rejected religion, I try nowadays, and thanks to you, to be more open minded to this and try to understand the interest that people could have in religion, as well as the role and impact it has on the world. Because even if sciences is nowaways the "norm" in answering questions such as the birth of universe or how Moise managed to "walk on water", I believe that scientists should keep their eyes and ears open to it... faith might be getting stronger than truth...!

yeah thanks for this one Jean-Marie. While I don't consider myself particularly religious, I was more or less raised in a church. I was always taught by my mother especially that there should not be any conflict between science and religion. Religion is interestingly one of the most fundamentally human characteristics and is found in virtually every society, so it shouldn't always be viewed as archaic or in contrast to modern discoveries. (ok...there is one, the Piraha people in Brazil who have no creation stories, but that's a whole different subject). Although , I do think that science has its place in our education system and I do believe religion should be separate. I am very against (was it Kansas??) that decided that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in schools. Then where do you stop? What becomes scientific fact in school anymore?

This presentation was my contribution to the Telecollaboration course, but the topic matches perfectly. So for those of you who were not participating in the course and haven't seen it yet: http://voicethread.com/share/972645/ Please feel free to comment on it!

thank you guys. May I briefly comment on what Lucas said that science has its place and that religion should be separate. I would go as far as to say that religion needs to be looked at with a scientific mind and that today there can be no more room for superstition when our vision should be world-embracing. May I suggest as a basis an evolvinc conceptual framework for social action.(you can find it here: http://jmnau.wordpress.com/) What people do in private is different from what should be taught to every child the world over!

just wanted to clear my last thought, because it might be confusing... what I wanted to say is that, what I have heard is happening in the USA, sciences has become to 'complicated' to understand for some people, whereas religion (extremism) talk to them with easier words and concepts. that is why many people of the US society is now 'turning their back to science'. However, scientists don't even realize what is happening and call crazy everyone who does not believe is scientific truth. What i wanted to say is that scientists should open their eyes instead of being stubborn and neglect religion as a whole.