“…a guide preparing the heart and mind to enter into a post-secular age.”
April 2, 2025 The Ethics of Evidence Foundation in collaboration with Herder and Herder has released two new publications. This marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Ethics of Evidence Foundation, incorporated in New York, in the spring of 2015, an organization for education and research, with the mission to support the search for meaning in the age of information. The Ethics of Evidence Foundation has divisions for Medicine, Social Justice, Physics, and Cosmology.
As the next volume in the series on the leading-edge theory of A Christian Cosmology by physicist-theologian Richard J. Pendergast, SJ (1927 -2012), Volume 2, The Cosmic Hierarchy: The Universe and its Many Irreducible Levels, is now available together with the introductory Volume 1 and Volume 6 on the Eucharist. Please visit herderandherder.com/pendergast-series for more information.
Dr. Valerie Miké, a mathematical scientist, historian of science, and editor of the Pendergast series, has prepared a companion volume, From Information to Insight: Toward a Consistent Reading of Science and Faith, that offers independent testimony for the compatibility of faith and reason, science and religion.
Special attention is called to three important issues discussed in this work:
- Introducing the work of the Jesuit scholar Richard J. Pendergast, SJ, Dr. Miké sees him as the second Pascal for the age of science, sharing the latter’s integrated vision of faith and reason.
- Dr. Miké identifies the high-profile Arkansas Creation Trial of 1982 as a major source of the widespread mistaken notion that religion and science are not related and that evolution must be a random process. Referring to her own published work, she points out that speculation about the meaning of sense experience has been an essential part of the history of ideas from antiquity.
- In a more recent development, Sir Ronald A. Fisher, a leading scientist of the twentieth century, founder of modern statistics and genetics and the creator of Neo-Darwinian synthesis, was caught by the cancel wave sweeping our culture. Using her extensive personal knowledge, Dr. Miké offers documentation to clear Fisher’s name of the false charges raised against him.
More information can be found at herderandherder.com/pendergast-series
“In this companion to A Christian Cosmology, Dr. Valerie Miké introduces the reader to the comprehensive vision of physicist-theologian Richard J. Pendergast, S.J., in a historical perspective that testifies to the compatibility of faith and reason, science and religion. A mathematical scientist, Dr. Miké was a witness and participant in the advent of the Age of Information. Her work, informed by the application of statistics to medicine, and by the Ethics of Evidence approach to understanding the world, brings philosophical realism to the existential and scientific uncertainty of our day. Seeking the truth, using the best available methods in each and every discipline, Dr. Miké addresses the irreducible nature of uncertainty, to overcome the ignorance, deception, reductionism, and fear of the unknown that are so endemic to our age. The book is invaluable as a guide preparing the heart and mind to enter into a post-secular age.” — MSGR. STUART W. SWETLAND, STD, President of Donnelly College, Kansas, National media commentator on religious issues; Academic degrees in theology (Pontifical Lateran University), physics (US Naval Academy), philosophy and economics (Oxford).
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