What is the conflict in 'Accidental Love'?

Religious people, don't you love how the myth of the "Conflict Thesis" is still promoted today........?

  • Namely that religion and science are intrinsically incompatible, and that they have constantly been at war with one another. Even though some of the most eminent Scientists in history have been religious, and there religious perspective came into play into there scientific inquiries. See, its interesting that when one talks about religion and science, people instantly memorize the Galileo Affair, or the Creation/Evolution controversy that has gone on since Charles Darwin and then go "Eureka! see, we proved religion and science are incompatible! Cause creationists dont like evolution, and the Catholic Church censored Galileo! There are so many ways to demonstrate how this view is false. First, look at Islamic Civilization during its Golden Age, and the many important contributions they made to Scientific discovery. People like Avicenna, the famous Islamic scholar who's "Canon of Medicine" was one of the most authoritative studies on Medicine for its time, and still influences us today. Or the contributions Islamic scholars have made to our understanding of things like Algebra, Optics. If you go to the Western world, people know of the Church as only restricting Science. But they dont know for instance that the Catholic Church built the first institutions of higher learning like the Universities of Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna and Salamanca, etc and these provided the intellectual stimulus for movements like the Scientific Revolution. And Even the proponents of the Scientific Revolution like Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho Brache, Galileo and Newton remained very religious, and their religious world view influenced their scientific studies. In the case of the Galileo, it was not that his views contradict the Bible. Its because the Catholic Church had taken on the Aristotelian Geocentric Model. Plus, Galileo's blunt and in your face style made him enemies. Years earlier, Copernicus had presented the heliocentric theory to Pope Clement Vii secretary, and upon hearing it the Pope was very amiable to the theory. Galileo himself, when he faced the Inquisition quoted St Augustine in order to prove the harmony of Scripture and Science. Others, such as Johannes Kepler also saw no conflict between religion and science. In fact, Kepler made this interesting comment concerning religion and science: "Geometry, coeternal with God and shining in the divine Mind, gave God the pattern... by which he laid out the world so that it might be best and most beautiful and finally most like the Creator."_Johannes Kepler(Harmonies of Worlds). Going into the modern era, in the fields of both genetics and cosmology religious people have also made important contributions as well. Gregor Mendel for instance was the founder of modern genetics and he was a Roman Catholic monk. The founder of the Big Bang theory was a Roman Catholic priest named George Lemaitre, who founded it at a time when many thought the Universe was eternal, a view that stretched back to the Enlightement with secular philosophers like David Hume. Even in the field of biology, there have been religious people who have been influential. R.A Fisher, and Anglican layman(who Dawkins says is the most influential biologist since Darwin) and Theodosius Dobzhansky, Orthodox layman, were some of the most important contributors to the modern evolutionary synthesis. So the only ones who continue to the perpetuate this myth of a conflict between religion and science are creationists and new atheists who wanna perpetuate this narrative to promote their own agenda. But any one with basic general knowledge, and a shred of education knows that it is a myth, and you'd have to be deluded to accept it, given the facts........

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    Evolution is utter nonsense. Romans 1:20 SDA

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Atheists accept no spiritual world. Believers accept both the spiritual and physical worlds. Atheists try to say believers are closed minded.

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Evolutionists like to accuse believers of being anti-science, just because we don't accept their precious 'magical monkey' theory... a theory with no evidence to support it. In reality, some of the most influential scientists in history were theists,

motivational_raven

you lost me somewhere around the sixth paragraph, could you add a few details?!

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Even worse is that the small groups of Atheists and Creationists are promoting it to further their own agendas Both groups try to make people believe that you have to choose between God and humanity's ongoing discovery of God's Creation through Science. This is not true. Truth cannot contradict Truth. -- Pope Leo XIII Most Jews and Christians do not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. We believe the stories included in first 11 chapters of Genesis tell religious truth but not necessarily historical fact. One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good. Catholics can believe in the theories of the big bang or evolution or both or neither. On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis: The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God. Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html And here is the Address of Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on October 22, 1996 speaking of the Theory of Evolution: http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htm Here is an interesting article about Pope John Paul II's opinion in the matter: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=4627 The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the big bang and evolution are the most logical scientific explanations. As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and responsible modern science can live in harmony. Here is a nice list of Christian thinkers in science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_science The Clergy Letter Project an open letter endorsing the Theory of Evolution signed by over 12,000 clergy from many different Christian denominations: http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/rel_evol_sun.htm I suggest you read "New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy" by Robert J. Spitzer http://www.amazon.com/New-Proofs-Existence-God-Contributions/dp/0802863833 http://www.magisreasonfaith.org/ With love in Christ.

imacatholic2

Do you know who the crowd who opposes evolution is?

John Farnham

they might be compatible but only to a certain extent and only one will prevail religion claims to have the answers to anything despite any empirical evidence, science claims to be searching for answers and will only accept truth not fantasy. there is a big problem there

Jim

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