Posted on 10/06/2005 6:36:03 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
Dr. Henry Fritz Schaefer, the Graham Perdue professor of Chemistry and the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia, gave a presentation Tuesday night about the convergence of science and Christianity.
Schaefer is a five-time Nobel Prize nominee, according to The U.S. News and World Report. He is the sixth most-cited scientist in the world, and he is the author of more than 1,000 scientific publications.
He lectured on the Big Bang Theory, Stephen Hawking and God to a crowd of nearly 800 people at the Seretean Center Concert Hall.
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That's true for man and food, but I do not believe it applies to God.
Big bang - No such thang
My point is there's NO science that's proven, so if proof is your standard, we should teach no science at all. The theory of evolution is a theory because that's all it can and will ever be, no matter how much evidence is gathered. Theories don't become facts, laws or anything other than theories.
Sounds like there is a misunderstanding of what a scientific theory actually menas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory Should we stop teaching the Theory of Gravity, the Theory of General Relativity, or the Theory of Electromagnetism.
Biologosts speak of the origin of species not "the origin of the species". The distinction is that evolutionary biology quite capably describes the origin of the varieties (i.e. separate species)of life from an original life form but is silent on the topic of how life first arose.
Darwin did not teach on how life began, only on how it became differentiated.
I have become convinced that this ID/evo dichotomy is almost all politics, anti-Christian resentment by libertarian-leaning conservatives, nurtured carefully by leftists in the interest of the DNC, being used to pry votes away from the GOP.
This keening and bleating by the erstwhile "scientists"? Well, I do think they protest a little too much. This problem of ID, if it really is one to science, could be negotiated away.
btw--have you ever seen the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest? If you haven't, it's a small park, but still worth the drive.
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