Well, that’s only our local universe. Things may be entirely different in all the others....
All the Millitant Athiests completely deny that the church from the middle ages to the begining of the modern era contributed a LOT to advancing science.
They only love to point out all the roadblock the church put up to science and ignore all the roads that they built because it suits their agenda.
Thomas Aquinas was the first to describe faith and reason as two sides to one coin.
Reason is the working of the mind and faith is the working of the soul.
Without this dual structure of knowledge, man's ability to think properly gets all screwed up.
So, it is not really a strange tension but one that reflects man's ability to think.
The real problem lies in the fact that scientists want to ignore the mystery of faith and theologians want to ignore reason.
We need both - like two legs.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
I really don't understand this. Scientists are driven to describe the physical universe, as accurately and in as much detail as possible. Yet some fundamentalists regard scientists as tools of the devil for being so literal and descriptive. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why describing creation as it actually is, and not as it was figuratively described in a book of moral lessons, is so threatening.
Nevertheless, religion will adapt to embrace the modern understanding of the world, just as it eventually accepted Gallileo's findings.
Actually, the big bank solves the problem of the six days of creation very nicely. It all has to do with how (and where) time is measured. This is because the universe is expanding at nearly the speed of light. Thus, while from our vantage point looking back our earth appears to be 14 billion years old. But if you measured time from the source of the big bang (the source of creation), then only six days have passed. It’s all in the math. The link below explains not only the math, but the theology behind it.
http://aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/Age_of_the_Universe.asp
Popcorn time! ‘-)
Not necessarily. The correlation actually is to prolonged exposure to unenlightened propagandizing by science-illiterate "ministers", taught by intellectually-inbred "professors" who think they can treat the few sentences in Genesis as if they were a graduate-level science text.
And the fire is kept smoking along by money-hungry YEC scamsters who deliberately (and/or egotistically) misinterpret Genesis and prey on the scientifically ignorant.
If the Big Bang is the same event as God speaking the heavens and the earth into existence, I don’t think any Christian theologian would reject it.