A professor at the University of Navarra analyzes the relationship between evolution, religion and truth in the choral book 'Science and God'.

Santiago Collado, Deputy Director of the CRYF.

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Santiago Collado, Deputy Director of group of research 'Science, Reason and Faith' (CRYF) of the University of Navarra, has collaborated in the choral book Science and God, edited by Miguel Ramón Viguri, professor of the School of Theology of Vitoria and the University of Deusto. The volume has been published by the publishing house Desclée de Brouwer and promoted by the high school Diocesan of Theology and Pastoral.

Specifically, the philosopher and physicist of the University of Navarra was in charge of the chapter Evolution: science, religion and truth. In it he analyzed the genesis of the theory of evolution, Darwin's proposal , the synthetic theory, and the contribution of the Biochemistry and the Genetics, in the context of the relationships between evolutionary proposals, religion and the notion of truth.

The contribution of science to the Philosophy to know God better.

"Never as now, with the new knowledge provided by science -expresses the author at the end of his text-, we have been in such a good position to make a Philosophy that allows us to find rational ways in nature to reach a better knowledge of God".

The following experts have also participated in the book: Roberto Casas Andrés, professor at the high school Superior de Ciencias Religiosas de Barcelona and the Escuela Universitaria de Magisterio Begoñako Andra Mari; Antonio Fernández-Rañada, Full Professor of the School of Physics of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and president of the Real Sociedad Española de Física; Martín Gelabert Ballester, Full Professor of the School of Theology of Valencia; Alberto Gutiérrez Martínez, philosopher and theologian; Francisco José Soler Gil, researcher Ramón y Cajal at the School of Philosophy of the University of Seville and member of the group of research of particle astrophysics of the University of Dortmund (Germany); and Vicente Vide Rodríguez, Dean of the School of Theology of the University of Deusto and director of the high school Superior of Religious Sciences of the diocese of Bilbao and the University of Deusto.