Are religion and science interfacing?

[Faithfulservant]

Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

Nah, it's another thread to bash Jehovah's Witnesses, the fundies just haven't shown up yet.

Chris

lol must be talking about me and dor.

[wil]

Wasn't there some quote regarding Science and Religion after Galileo was let out...Scientists control the realm of what we know and the Church controls the realm of what we don't know?... I probably butchered that. But as time goes on Science's realm increases....but interesting enough it seems so does the Church's!

[pattimax]

Originally Posted by wil

But as time goes on Science's realm increases....but interesting enough it seems so does the Church's!

And it always will, God set it up that way.

[cyberpi]

Perhaps someone should inform science that unless a person personally repeats every single experiment, that the person has already placed Faith in 'someone' to tell him the Truth. I suggest science interfaces with religion daily.

I wonder though:
"In as much as you have placed Faith in the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me."

[China Cat Sunflower]

Some major denominations within organized Christianity are clearly moving toward a postion which allows a synthesis of science and religion. Notably, the Roman Catholic church has taken a clear position against the fundamentalist mindset, calling it "dangerous", and invitational to "intellectual suicide."

The church's interpretational task, as Cardinal Carlo Martini of Milan has urged, is "always to go back and forth from the biblical text to the present, and from the present day experience to the text."

In this process of living dialogue between the past and present, which theologians call "reception', the people of God, according to Cardinal Jan Willebrands, "under the direction of the Holy Spirit recognize and accept new understandings, new witness to the truth and new expressions of theology, in line with apostolic tradition and in harmony with a sense of the faithful, of the whole church."

John Paul II has called this process a "sacrament of dialogue." It clearly embraces the relationship of science and religion, as the Pope taught in 1987. "Imagine," he wrote, "if the cosmologies of the Ancient Near Eastern world could be purified and assimilated into the first chapters of Genesis? Might not contemporary cosmology have something to offer to our reflections on creation? Does our evolutionary perspective bring any light to bear on theological anthropology? On the problem of Christology, and even upon the development of doctrine itself?. What, if any, are the eschatalogical implications of contemporary cosmology, especially in the light of the vast future of our universe?"

The church rejects fundamentalism Catholic New Times - Find Articles

Chris

[pattimax]

Didn't they just ask for forgiveness for the trial of Galileo?

[China Cat Sunflower]

Originally Posted by pattimax

Didn't they just ask for forgiveness for the trial of Galileo?

Better late than never, I guess.

The RCC dug itself into a deep hole trying to maintain the illusion of infallability. Fortunately, with Vatican II, it stopped digging and started filling.

Chris

[pattimax]

Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

Some major denominations within organized Christianity are clearly moving toward a postion which allows a synthesis of science and religion. Notably, the Roman Catholic church has taken a clear position against the fundamentalist mindset, calling it "dangerous", and invitational to "intellectual suicide."


The church rejects fundamentalism Catholic New Times - Find Articles

Chris

Great article, thanks! True fundamental beliefs are a lot different than "fundamentalism".

..."seeks to find the reality of faith there expressed, but also seeks to link this reality to the experience of faith in our present world".

[Prober]

My opinion is that science and religion are peeling the same onion from two different sides and that God will eventually show this to be true...

[flowperson]

Droopy...you really know what's up.

flow....