Science V Religion

[Postmaster]

Galileo said that Christianity explained how to get to heaven but science explained how the heavens were made. I think that’s just a perfect phrase to synchronize religion and science. Other then that science has nothing to do with religion regardless of what some modern day religions have to say.

[lunamoth]

Hey Postmaster, excellent timing on this thread. Emphasizing the complementary nature of science and religion will balance out the thread I started here:

Is Science a Religion?

cheers,
lunamoth

[Dondi]

You ought to read "The Science of God" by Gerald Schroeder. He does an excellent job of merging science with religion.

[wil]

It seems that during Galileo's time religion sort of came to an agreement with the scientists. He's out there running around saying the earth revolves around the sun confounding what the church was teaching...using his demonic telescope to exam the heavens and not finding above the firmament what was common knowldege to be there...

Got the church fathers on shaky ground but with some introspection and discussion...was sort of hard to disprove what was being said...so we had to come to terms....science you deal with what is known and can be proven and the church will deal with things of faith, that which is unkown and can't be proven.

Since then science has been gaining ground...but more recently we are seeing a merger between the two.. of course some say this merger is tenous at best, and being held together by strings...but that is only theory.

[China Cat Sunflower]

Let's not forget that religion and science were once one discipline. Also, the Eastern Church never had the conflict with emerging science like the Western Church. I've never heard of the Eastern Orthodox Church ever accusing scientists of heresy. With the exception of fundamentalists and assorted backwater denominations, modern religion seems to have renounced any substantial conflict with science. Science keeps religion from getting out of hand and vice versa. Plus, with what the new physics is teaching us about the illusory nature of matter, science and religion seem to actually be coelescing. That's really cool!

Chris

[inhumility]

Originally Posted by Postmaster

science has nothing to do with religion

In fact Science and Religion are very much related with each other. Since both have been created by One God, science is the Action of God manifest in the universe and Revealed Religions are Word of God, there cannot be any contradictions between the both. If there is apparently some discrepancy that is either because a scientific Law is still in the making, it is yet a theory and not considered a Law as yet by the scientific world; or the Word of God has not been correctly understood or interpreted due to omission or commission of the religious world or simply by the cunning corrupt religious hierarchy.Thanks
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