Posted on 06/05/2009 1:01:10 PM PDT by markomalley
A senior Vatican delegation visited the world's biggest nuclear physics laboratory, proclaiming that true faith has no problems with science.
The Roman Catholic Church was represented by Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, Vatican City's governor, as it toured the CERN facility and its 17-mile (27-kilometer) proton accelerator this week. It welcomed any breakthroughs physicists could provide on understanding the basis of the universe, and said they would also advance religion.
"The Church never fears the truth of science, because we are convinced that all truth comes from God," Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, Vatican City's governor, said Thursday in Geneva. "Science will help our faith to purify itself. And faith at the same time will be able to broaden the horizons of man, who cannot just enclose himself in the horizons of science."
Lajolo spoke a day after visiting the laboratory beneath the Swiss-French border and receiving a crash course in particle physics from Edward Witten, the Princeton University professor at the forefront of attempts to unify Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics.
CERN's atom smasher, the world's largest, is seen as vital in this quest. Physicists hope soon to use the $10 billion machine to smash protons from hydrogen atoms crash into each other at high energy, record what particles are produced and gain a better idea of the makeup of the universe and everything in it.
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Lajolo said scientific truths could "correct some of our opinions" about scripture and faith. He said nothing in science could contradict the Holy Scriptures — only interpretations — because both were rooted in God.
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A very good thought for all of us to remember.
I’m down wid dat.
Excellent.
Science animated by faith could be a huge force for good in this world but Satan has driven a wedge between the two. Science has been taken over by agnostics and atheists who regard faith as ridiculous while many believers consider science to be incompatible with Scripture. It isn't but we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Always remember the words of Pope John Paul II when he visited America in the early '80s. His voice rising in anger he exclaimed;
"Men of the 20th century, you know the mysteries of creation far better than Abraham or Moses. Do they no longer speak to you of God?"
In “Angels and Demons”, a Catholic priest worked for CERN.
Guess they liked the movie?
There are over 35 craters on the Moon named after Jesuit astronomers.
Astronomy was for a very long time known as the “Jesuit Science”
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