Posted on 11/18/2014 3:59:02 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
The "correction guy" meme comes in handy here.
I don't get the whole science vs. religion BS in the first place. People of faith don't reject science, and you don't have to believe in one or the other either. The imposition of this dichotomy by anti-religionists/atheists is so idiotic.
Very well said.
Idiotic, yes. Pushed upon us by fools.
Science brought us the weapons in the second picture.
Fools? Or charlatans?
All Charlatans are Fools although not all Fools are Sharlatans
Nature is both God created and fully real, and not a shadow of some ideal realm. And the study of nature is essential in man's quest for knowledge.And knowledge is a real good necessary for happiness in this world.
Actually, the link between modern science and religion goes way back. During the Protestant Renewal the Bible was viewed very literally.
“Adam was thought to have possessed a perfect knowledge of all sciences, a knowledge lost to posterity when he fell from grace and was expelled from the Garden of Eden. The goal of 17th century scientists such as Francis Bacon and his successors in the Royal Society of London was to regain the scientific knowledge of the first man. Indeed, for these individuals, the whole scientific enterprise was an integral part of a redemptive enterprise that, along with the Christian religion, was to help restore the original race to its original perfection. The biblical account of the creation thus provided these scientists with an important source of motivation, and in an age still thoroughly committed to traditional Christianity, the new science was to gain social legitimacy on account of these religious associations.” (Harrison, P., The Bible and the rise of science, Australasian Science 23(3):14–15, 2002.)
It was this pursuit of “truth” that resulted in development of the scientific method, which stood the old “philosophy on consensus” on its head. The scientific method often starts with a single – often contrary – position. This new view is presented as a hypothesis supported by experimental data. This new position is gradually accepted by the larger community as the experiments are duplicated by others. “Truth’s” are constantly tested by alternate hypothesis.
So don’t be afraid of scientist or their pursuit of truth. They owe their very existence to the religious pursuit of truth.
Science is looking at God’s creation through the eyes of men. God has a different perspective.
Some do, if it contradicts their interpretation of the Bible.
I don't know anyone who is afraid of scientists. The truth will set you free.
But I do know some materialists who are very much afraid of God and devoutly wish people would stop talking about Him.
They may well reject the theories on creation that seem to differ or reject the accounts in scripture, but they don’t reject ALL science.
Even then this has no relevance to a machine landing on a comet. What about Christianity preclude the acknowledgement and celebration of this achievement?
What gets me is when they say miracles are “magic”.
I always quote Authur C. Clarke, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishably from magic.”
They demonstrate incredible arrogance when they assume that if they can’t understand how something was done, then God couldn’t have done it or it didn’t happen
What gets me is when they say miracles are “magic”.
I always quote Authur C. Clarke, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishably from magic.”
They demonstrate incredible arrogance when they assume that if they can’t understand how something was done, then God couldn’t have done it or it didn’t happen
Correct.
I embrace physics and chemistry and all that. My computer works well -- there must be something to this science stuff, eh?
But string theory ...?
meh
Not so much.
Doesn't make me "anti-science".
Excellent, even though you had to say it twice, :)
Though I think our understanding of certain of God’s parameters have been logarithmically closer to what we’ve discerned.
Lose the feral apostrophe, please. Otherwise I agree wholeheartedly.
There are some religious folks whose religious views are so simplistic that they believe they have to deny basic scientific discoveries for fear that those discoveries contradict their sacred writings.
There are some scientific atheists whose philosophical outlooks are so simplistic that they believe they have to deny the existence of God or anything supernatural for fear that those entities contradict well-founded scientific theories.
People with simplistic outlooks on our complex world should humble themselves and stop spouting out so much nonsense. It's normally the people with the most simplistic and incorrect outlooks that shout the loudest ... and create the most annoying YouTube videos.
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