Articles by Bruce Gregory

In a recent commentary in The Scientist (June 8, 1992, page 12), Bryan Farha calls for a collective project involving scientists and religious leaders in "a grand endeavor to address the greatest existential questions on the grandest of scales: Who or what orchestrated the birth of the universe, and for what purpose?" I would think that the first step in such a process would be for scientists and religious leaders to agree on the kinds of evidence that bear on this question. If the participan

Is religion compatible with science? Is chemistry compatible with art? A chemical description of the Mona Lisa seems to miss a great deal of what someone can learn either from looking at the painting or from reading Kenneth Clark. Are Clark’s readers simply deluding themselves? Is chemistry more real than art? Chemistry and art criticism only seem to conflict if we think they are meant to do the same things. For most people, the same can be said of religion and science. Granted there is no