Posted on 08/05/2010 7:27:13 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
Just read The World Turned Upside: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, And Power by the British agnostic, Melanie Phillips. Inside you’ll discover a collection of wonderful quotes, from David Horowitz to Peter Staudenmaier, and other words of encouragement, for the friends of free speech. Most courageously though, Phillips supports the position that Christianity and science are more than friends. As Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas believed, God’s universe was supremely rational (p.327):
This is why many scientists from the earliest times onwards have been Christians and Jews. It is why Francis Bacon said that God had provided us with two books, the book of Nature and the Bible, and that to be properly educated one must study both. It is why Isaac Newton believed that the Biblical account of Creation had to be read and understood; why Descartes justified his search for natural laws on the grounds that they must exist because God was perfect and thus” acts in a manner as constant and immutable as possible” except for the rare cases of miracles; why the German astronomer Johannes Kepler believed that the goal of science was to discover within the natural world “the rational order which has been imposed on it by God”; and why Galileo Galilei said that “the laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.”
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Christianity is not a religion!
If you mean Christianity is a A religion, but THE religion than I agree
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Physicist Paul Davies writes,
"Science is possible only because we live in an ordered universe which complies with simple mathematical laws. The job of the scientist is to study, catalogue, and relate the orderliness on nature, not to question its origin. But theologians have long argued that the order in the physical world is evidence for God. If this is true, then science and religion acquire a common purpose in revealing God's work.
Not sure what the original poster meant, but I tend to view religion as a manmade institution, while my Christianity is centered on my beliefs and my personal decision to follow Christ.
Generally, I respect the religion that promotes Christianity, but I hardly consider Christianity to be of the religions that promote it.
Religion is a process through which one’s Christianity can be realized.
Despite all the hoopla about Galileo, the Catholic Church has always supported science, and many prominent scientists of the past have been monks or priests. Indeed, during the "Dark Ages", most of what science and technology that survived and was transferred was through monasteries. Archeological studies have shown that a monastery in England was on the verge of discovering how to make steel (which would have ushered in the "Iron Age" centuries before it actually happened). Unfortunately for the progress of technology, Henry VIII couldn't "keep it in his pants", and disbanded the monastery during the "English Reformation".
And in the case of Galileo, what the church really accused him of was in reading too much into too limited data (i.e. his hypotheses outran his facts).
It seems the very nature of Christian thought—to seek truth—is also the heart of science.
And the most significant scientific evidence of all time is the resurrected Christ.
False. And this is likely why millions of Europeans today believe that faith and stupidity go together.
Deuteronomy commanded the Israelites to love God with their body, soul AND mind. Real science leads to a deeper understanding of God because God is the one who set the physical world in motion and things run in tandem with His divine person which is never chaos, but order.
"Junk Science" today is the opposite of real science. The deluders fight the true laws of nature and try to invent their own which ends only in chaos.
The conventional Galileo story is so laden with distortion and falsehood that it is at best a fable . Its purpose was to smear the Catholic church.
The conventional Galileo story is so laden with distortion and falsehood that it is at best a fable . Its purpose was to smear the Catholic church.
I view the church as being the body of believers. I view religion as being a man-made structure of rules and doctrines. Probably splitting hairs, but that's just my personal view.
Real science is concerned with truth. Christ Jesus IS the Truth. There’s no conflict or discrepancy between them.
It does pop up, though, with false science and false Christians.
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