Posted on 03/31/2019 6:07:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
An award-winning scientist recently told the world that science and religion are not incompatible.
The Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports (3/19/19), “The annual Templeton Prize, which recognizes outstanding contributions to ‘affirming life's spiritual dimension,’ was awarded Tuesday to Brazilian Marcelo Gleiser---a theoretical physicist dedicated to demonstrating science and religion are not enemies.”
Gleiser, a professor at Dartmouth College since 1991, said, “Science does not kill God.”
Although he is described as an agnostic, the AFP reports that Gleiser “refuses to write off the possibility of God's existence completely.” He said, "Atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method…Atheism is a belief in non-belief. So you categorically deny something you have no evidence against…I'll keep an open mind because I understand that human knowledge is limited."
I agree with this man’s sentiments. How is it that science and God are somehow viewed as enemies?
The great British jurist, Sir William Blackstone, whose four-volume set of Commentaries on the Laws of England were of great value to our founding fathers, put it this way: “Thus, when the Supreme Being formed the universe, and created matter out of nothing, He impressed certain principles upon that matter, from which it can never depart, and without which it would cease to be. When He put that matter into motion, He established certain laws of motion, to which all moveable bodies must conform.”
I think it is fascinating that virtually all the early scientists historically were professing Christians. They were, in the words of Johannes Kepler, “thinking God’s thoughts after Him” in their scientific explorations. Modern science arose near the end of the medieval period. The early scientists believed that a rational God had made a rational universe, and it was their job---using the words of Kepler, “as priests of the highest God”---to try and catalogue what laws of the universe He had created.
Consider some of the thoughts of scientists who were Christians through the ages.
Blaise Pascal was a brilliant mathematician in 17th century France. He is credited with discovering principles that would ultimately lead to the creation of the computer.
Pascal said, “Faith tells us what senses cannot, but it is not contrary to their findings. It simply transcends, without contradicting them.” Pascal also said, “Jesus Christ is the only proof of the living God. We only know God through Jesus Christ.”
Isaac Newton, the discoverer of gravity and one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, wrote more about the Bible and about Christian theology than he did science. Said the great Newton: “I have a foundational belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”
The father of modern chemistry was Oxford professor Robert Boyle, born in 1627. Boyle was not only a diligent student of chemistry, but a diligent student of the Bible. In his will he left a large sum of money to found the "Boyle lectures" for proving the Christian religion.
19th century American Matthew Fontaine Maury is credited as the father of oceanography. He got his idea that the sea has “lanes” and currents from a verse in the Bible. Psalm 8:8 speaks of “the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.”
One time Maury gave a speech at the inauguration for a college in which he said, “I have been blamed by men of science, both in this country and in England, for quoting the Bible in confirmation of the doctrines of physical geography. The Bible, they say, was not written for scientific purposes, and is therefore of no authority in matters of science. I beg your pardon: the Bible is authority for everything it touches.” That includes, he said, “physical geography, the earth, the sea and the air.”
Maury added, “[W]hen, after patient research, I am led to the discovery of any one of [the physical laws the Creator has built into His creation], I feel with the astronomer of old [i.e., Kepler], as though I had 'thought one of God's thoughts,'— and tremble. Thus as we progress with our science we are permitted now and then to point out here and there in the physical machinery of the earth a design of the Great Architect when He planned it all.”
Indeed, as science professor Marcelo Gleiser points out, “science does not kill God.” Far from it.
The late Dr. Robert Jastrow was an astronomer and a planetary physicist with NASA, and he wrote a book called, God and the Astronomers.
Jastrow noted, “The scientist has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; and as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries
‘An award-winning scientist recently told the world that science and religion are not incompatible.’
keep telling yourself that, bud...
The folks that zaid the hymalayas will melt by 2020 are the same money changers from the 1840s that believe the principles of thermodynamics and biogenesis do not appply. All i can say is, their science is not observable, repeat able.. just their perssonal religion shoved down the throats of children under threat of law and death.
A science theiry that needs legal protection, is illogical.
science and some religions ARE incompatible.
Authors should be clearer. Religion is not just one view/belief. There are many many religions but only one God who did create the world and slowly is revealing to us what we call “science”.
A true scientist is one who thinks God’s thoughts after Him.
Anyone who accepts the reality of a single miracle thereby forfeits the right to reject the Genesis on the basis of scientific uniformitarianism.
Let me know when "science and religion" quarrel about the "virgin birth."
Science and Religion are compatible.
Anyone who does not realize this should join the “Flat Earth Society “ or better named, “The Flat Consciousness Society.”
Miracles are merely science that we currently fo not understand.
Science and religion are not incompatible. God gave man the open mind to think and do for himself. After all, it is man that determines his direction. Besides, who invented science? God invented everything, to include science. God only allows man to mess it up like they do everything else. Please don’t ask me why, I’m not that smart.
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Christians see evidence for God's existence everywhere. It is the Christian's position that the weight of evidence from history, theology, philosophy, science, mathematics, logic, and personal experience all suggest the existence of a Creator and Redeemer.
Notice the assumptions:
Religion is all emotion, no rationality.
Science is all rationality, no emotion.
Sorry, when I look at anything not man made, my logic says this did not happen by accident. That is general revelation. And it is ok to try to understand how it works.
Science without philosophy is incomplete, most of recorded history knew this.
Reading God’s word is special revelation. That takes a lot of logic and thinking.
The Oxford / Cambridge of Medieval / Renaissance Literature, C.S. Lewis, wrote that he had received correspondence signed "MD" which stated that anyone who publicly professed belief in the Virgin Birth should be flogged.
I’m a scientist. Accordingly, I’m also a skeptic. I’m not just satisfied with seeing and experiencing as I need to understand the supporting science to accept a theory into my belief system.
That being said, The consciousness of other people, including the stored memories of their past experiences since conception are physical to my perceptions. I read people’s souls.
I’ve been doing this for 30 plus years, 25 of which I have been studying and performing neuroscience research to understand the supporting science.
It has brought all religions, science, medicine and psychology all together in one body of knowledge for me.
When I demonstrate this in a medical setting for other scientists, it freaks them out as they can’t believe what they are seeing.
It really creates problems for people with big egos whose identity is based upon their posession of knowledge or being an expert when they see my demonstrations it undermines their knowledge and injures their ego.
“Let me know when “science and religion” quarrel about the “virgin birth.”
Eggs Fertilized Without Sperm. July 2001
In a bizarre reproductive biology advance, researchers have fertilized mouse eggs with cells from another mouse’s body—instead of sperm. ...
The work is the first demonstration that embryos can develop from the combination of an intact egg and a nonreproductive cell.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2001/07/egg-fertilized-without-sperm
The most recognizable aspect of the universe is that it is understandable. I don’t believe that’s an accident.
Faith is easy
Science is hard
You can’t do astronomy with a microscope!
Perception is the variable that scientists have assumed was a constant. It is not.
Our perception of reality is a function if the frequency of consciousness from which we view it.
At higher operating frequencies, consciousness itself becomes physical or material.
'Seems like an assumption to me.
At one time philosophy was the “queen” of science. Everything else was a sub set.
According to an unverifiable story, dated of some 700 years after the founding of the school, above the entrance to the Academy was inscribed the phrase “Let None But Geometers Enter Here.”[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy
Why geometers? Philosophy is the panicle of logic studies, which science has lost...…………………. Are scientists even trained in logic anymore?
In Platos Academia, a sign said on entry, “All geometers enter here.”
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