Posted on 04/06/2015 12:38:14 PM PDT by Lorianne
book review ___ Why Science Does Not Disprove John Batchelor interviews author Amir Aczel
podcasts 39:45
Because it can't.
Science is about how. Religion is about why. The latter is the higher pursuit.
What a bizarre thesis.
Science doesn’t posit nor disprove God (a few atheist loudmouths notwithstanding).
It merely measures and evaluates physical phenomena.
There is a space called “science.” There is a space called “theology.” They only overlap when “what,” “how,” and “why” are called together, usually for political purposes.
Science supports a creation event. Sounds Biblical.
I fairly often run across fundamentalist types railing at the Big Bang Theory. (The theory, not the TV show, though they probably rail at it, too.)
Will never, ever understand this. Genesis 1:1 is merely a restatement of BBT. And providing a cause, which is missing from the theory.
It’s hard to actually use the scientific method -
where’s your “control universe” without God?
Will never, ever understand this. Genesis 1:1 is merely a restatement of BBT. And providing a cause, which is missing from the theory.
Interestingly enough, it was the “Big Bang Theory” or it’s supposed confirmation that rallied many Christians and their Apologetics.
But there was a problem.
Time.
Many Christians are divided on the issue of the age of the earth and our universe. Many found the BB a solution to the question of “Something from Nothing”, and accepted the new found age of 13.? billion years as something that can be dealt with.
IMHO, it can’t be dealt with.
More recently there have been an increasing number of questions that remain unresolved regarding the “Red-shift” etc.., questions that seem to validate Fred Hoyles “steady state” hypothesis.
I admit that to suggest a literal “In the beginning, was the Word”, “and the Word was God” lends itself to the Big bang as THE Creation event. It is very appealing and seems to satisfy some Creationist. But as our scientific knowledge expands we/they are creating more questions than answers.
I just read a comment in my Passover Hagadah (the liturgy of the Passover meal) from the fifth Lubavitcher Rabbi, Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson, ZT’L. It applies well here:
A skeptic told Rabbi Schneerson of his disbelief in a spirituat world. The Rabbi answered with an analogy. “We are presently on a trip involving three parties. We are the passengers, eager to get to our destination for business purposes. There is the driver of the wagon, who is thinking about the rubles he will earn with which to buy his provisions [for the Sabbath,] and there are the horses who are pulling the wagon and thinking about the straw they will receive when the destination is reached. Should we allow the horses to define the purpose of this journey? Likewise, does the fact that ‘horses’ can only think of ‘straw’ negate the existence of the spiritual reality?”
I agree.
One of my favorite quotes I’ve read lately was along these lines: “When I became a scientist back in the ‘60s, Science was leading away from God. 30 or 40 years later, with all the advances we’ve made, most of Science is pointing towards God”.
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