Posted on 03/25/2014 8:03:13 AM PDT by Heartlander
I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.
—Johannes Kepler
God makes people conscious of their inward wretchedness, which the Bible calls "sin" and his infinite mercy. Unites himself to their inmost soul, fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, renders them incapable of any other end than Himself. Jesus Christ is the end of all and the center to which all tends.
—Blaise Pascal
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being….
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. It must be expressed in the very form of sound words in which it was delivered by the apostles. For men are apt to run into partings about deductions. All the old heresies lie in deductions….
The true faith was in the Biblical texts.
—Isaac Newton
Speculations, man, I have none. I have certainties. I thank God that I don't rest my dying head upon speculations for "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day."
—Michael Faraday
Think what God has determined to do to all those who submit themselves to his righteousness and are willing to receive his gift [of eternal life in Jesus Christ]. They are to be conformed to the image of his Son and when that is fulfilled and God sees they are conformed to the image of Christ, there can be no more condemnation.
—James Clerk Maxwell
Do not be afraid to be free thinkers. If you think strongly enough, you will be forced by science to the belief in God.
—William Thomson (later known as Lord Kelvin)
You will understand that my atheism was inevitably based on what I believed to be the findings of the sciences and those findings, not being a scientist, I had to take on trust, in fact, on authority.
— C. S. Lewis
I'm very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight, knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.
—Erwin Schrodinger
There is a tremendous tradition of distinguished scientists who were and are Christians. I hope that my work is considered sufficiently outstanding to fall into the distinguished among that category. I also hope I have given you enough evidence that you will never again believe that it is impossible to be a scientist and a Christian.
—Dr. Henry F. Schaefer, III
I cannot Stand Tyson or Michio Kako, they’re as bad as Gloria Alred is if there’s a camera around.
The anti-God crowd looks at these giants of science and counters with the quackery of Darwin. They mock the ocean liners as they paddle their leaking canoe around the whirlpools of genuine scientific inquiry that cast doubt on their cult of pseudo-science.
“Nature abhors a vacuum.”
François Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)
Quoting an old Latin proverb (“Natura abhorret vacuum.”)
In the absence of Belief,
falls the Void,
In the Void,
there is only Silence,
The Silence of Islam ...
Religion has been an enemy of science since Pope Benedict XVI burned Galileo at the steak.
most of the hipsters that worship these camera hogs wouldn’t even know who most of the people quoted in the article even were.
They just know how much they “love science” because they dropped some Mentos in some soda and marveled at the mess it makes.
(flame suit on)
I find the claim that Christianity did more to advance science than hinder ludicrous.
But it wasn’t Christianity per se that inhibited scientific achievement. It was the Church run by men. Churches are a man made corruption. Man learned it could take the teachings of the Bible and twist them and use them to control the populations. Something that still goes on today.
He burned his steak? I would be so pissed.......;)
Cosmos sucks, condescending and insulting. And the host is AffAct in the worst (next to the Pres__ent).
Funny
As for the "Cosmos" show ... I saw about the last half hour of episode 3. Tiresome, tedious, tendentious, travesty ... I watched the original Cosmos, with Carl Sagan. It had its problems, but this dreck is absolutely dreadful. I shan't be watching any more of it.
So he didn't go into Newton's religious motivations as you would have preferred. So what? That doesn't make what he said revisionist, or even wrong. What was factually incorrect? Anything?
Read “The Rise of Early Modern Science - Islam, China, and the West”.
Christianity is the basis of “the West” and due to the underlying beliefs of Christianity, science advanced.
The other worldviews of the time inhibited scientific advancement.
Didn’t watch it.
“...portrays humanity in early history as “an abandoned baby on a doorstep,”...”
Why is that these “thinkers” who are portrayed as the best and the brightest always think that people who have gone before are unenlightened?
“Why is that these “thinkers” who are portrayed as the best and the brightest always think that people who have gone before are unenlightened?”
Usually by looking at what they did and thought. Future generations will look at us the same way.
I did not write the article but the series so far has had an anti-theistic slant to it IMO. A story can be told mostly factual and still have a slant as we can see in most reporting today.
When Obama did the intro on the shows first nite it was all I need to know where this was headed. I turned the tv off when he was done and will never watch again.
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