A New Foundation for Positive Cultural Change: Science and God in the Public Square

Human Events ^ | September 15, 2000 | Nancy Pearcey

[RunningWolf]

Partially blind and distorted yes.
But maybe for some of them it is really not dishonest nor deceptive, but they simply are not able to see beyond those horizon's.

In their world; as science cannot measure or record it, does mean it has no reality.

W.

[Louis Foxwell]

the American civil order -- our very Constitution -- is established on the basis of the specifically Christian view of man,

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The authority for creating this nation was not human law but the laws of God in Nature - actual God and actual Nature. This is precisely why any attempt to remove God from Nature is so outrageous. It distorts reality and attacks the foundation of our nation.

[MainFrame65]

" == However, isn't there an ethical code attached to the practice of each discipline? And when this ethical code is breached, isn't the science therein in danger of becoming "perverted" science? == "

Yes, and we have a very topical example of the perversion in the form of the professional "bioethicist." I believe that the more accurate rendering of the vast majority of these people is more like "bio-DEATH-ASSIST," because they all seem to me to be an incredibly bloodthirsty lot, both at the beginning and the end of life.

[cornelis]

Yes, of course. But science is the doing. There is no science in and of itself. Science in and of itself is an old dusty something in a basement, practically non-existent.

[little jeremiah]

For them to pontificate about things they have no knowledge of because they have deliberately excluded them from their consideration, is deceptive.

HAMMER MEETS NAIL!

[JCEccles]

Bookmark, and bump.

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you!

[mitch5501]

placemarker bump

[Mom MD]

And thank you all for this thread. A breath of fresh air after being attacked on certain recent threads!

[.30Carbine]

welcome to the party

I've entered the room...give me a few minutes to mingle!

[aumrl]

Which of the three books you mention explains the soul ?

[aumrl]

Which of the three books you mention explains the soul ?

[Liberty Wins]

I would like to recommend a wonderful book, "The Privileged Planet" by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards. I recently saw the TV documentary based on it and was deeply impressed. The main thesis is fascinating: that the Earth is situated in a "galactic habitable zone," an area of the universe that is protected from the deadliest cosmic dangers. They provide an endless array of mathematically improbable, but favorable factors that allows Earth to support complex life. It would appear that advanced life may be much, much more rare than has been suggested by Carl Sagan, et al.

Earth is also in a unique position in the galaxy to allow a clear view of the heavens so mankind can study and discover its secrets. Not only are there no cosmic dust or gas clouds surrounding us, we have been given an unusually transparent atmosphere, a rare thing in itself.

This was a new idea to me. I had always taken for granted that other star systems would be just as good a vantage point for observation of the rest of the universe. Not until you see the documentary do you realize how strange and mysterious (and lucky) our planet's location is.

[betty boop]

They provide an endless array of mathematically improbable, but favorable factors that allows Earth to support complex life. It would appear that advanced life may be much, much more rare than has been suggested by Carl Sagan, et al. ... Earth is also in a unique position in the galaxy to allow a clear view of the heavens so mankind can study and discover its secrets.

It's difficult to argue chance causation under these circumstances. The confluence of so many mathematical improbabilities is serendipitous, to say the last.

Thanks for the excellent post, Liberty Wins, and for the book recommendation! "The Privileged Planet" sounds fascinating.

[betty boop]

The authority for creating this nation was not human law but the laws of God in Nature - actual God and actual Nature. This is precisely why any attempt to remove God from Nature is so outrageous. It distorts reality and attacks the foundation of our nation.

This bears repeating! Excellent, Amos. Thank you so very much!

[.30Carbine]

Enjoyed this conversation in the corner by the window with Cicero very much! More champagne, anyone? (;

[.30Carbine]

Also delighted in my chat with hosepipe on the red couch by the fire! (; Pass that man a cigar!

[.30Carbine]

There's at least one good joke teller at every party, thank God!

[.30Carbine]

You're just right, cornelis: No thought or action - and science falls into both categories - is amoral. There is no vacuum where life is present - something will indeed fill the void left by the removal of right morality - whether in science, public schools, politics...name the venue.

[hosepipe]

LoL...