Does It Have To Be Religion Versus Science?In the UK today we are living in a secular society. The question of religion versus science is sometimes raised, with the assumption by many that the two are not compatible.Here I examine ways in which religion and science are compatible, and cheekily suggest some ways in which religion might just be ahead of the game. Articles on Religion Versus Science:
2. Science Was Cultivated Within Religious Establishments 3. Religion And The Theory Of Evolution Co-Exist 4. How Do The Bible and Science Agree? 5. There is No Proof Either Way 6. Religion - Faith and Reason 8. Can We Meet Others' Beliefs In A Spirit of Scientific Inquiry? 9. Religion and Science People - Who Do Both? 10. Books On Religion Versus Science 1. Scientists Who Are Religious Science is studied at religious schools throughout the world. Within most of those establishments it doesn’t occur to anyone that religion and science are incompatible. The two diciplines live happily side by side. I attended a Catholic secondary school and I remember my Physics teacher saying that the Universe is a wonderful mystery and we have the joy of trying to puzzle it out. Some students will go on to lose their religion and keep their science. Can it be religion versus science when so many eminent scientists have believed in God? Here are some of them:
See point 9 in these Religious Articles for a list of those working currently within both religion and science. 2. Science Was Cultivated Within Religious Establishments In considering the question of religion versus science, it is interesting to note that science was born in the medieval universities and established and nurtured by the Christian religion."Professors at a university got their title originally from their profession of religious vows.” The theory of the Big Bang was put forward by the astrophysicist and Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître. He was the vatican astronomer.Other astronomers at the time suspected that he was motivated by trying to find a “scientific basis” for the idea of a Genesis point. “Fr Lemaître himself denied this, and he personally urged Pope Pius XII not to promote his theory as such a proof.” In 1987, in a letter marking the 300th anniversary of the publication of Newton’s Prinicpia, Pope John Paul II wrote: “Science can purify religion from error and superstition; (The information in the point above is from various church articles by
Br Guy Consolmagno SJ, Vatican astronomer.)
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It's OK To Believe
It is unusual and heartening to read a book which has something to offer both the secular and the spiritual.
Katherine T Owen explores faith and doubt creatively, poetically, and from a questioning, logical viewpoint.
She proposes that - whether we are spiritual or secular - we all have beliefs. Let us work out what they are and choose them carefully.
Using intriguing metaphors from mobile phones to eating cake, It's OK to Believe helps us clarify and develop our beliefs.
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