ISSR Statements
Neuroscience and Religious Faith
The extent to which neuroscience can at least potentially explain religious belief and experience has been understood in different ways. A survey and personal evaluation by Warren Brown, which the ISSR Executive Committee believes provides a good
Creationism as an educational issue
Following recent events within the Royal Society centred on the issue of how creationism should be dealt with in the educational system, a Fellow of that Society – ISSR’s first President, John Polkinghorne – gave a brief
Evolution Controversy
ISSR would like to draw attention to a report – “Science, Evolution, and Creationism” – prepared by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., which we believe provides an important resource for an
Religious Reasons for Supporting Science
ISSR believes that people of all the main religious faith traditions have strong reasons for supporting the scientific enterprise. We also believe that these reasons, while they may vary from tradition to tradition, should be articulated as

