Posted by Tallyman on March 16, 1999 at 11:04:59 {MWkiJ8W7uc3gE}:
Resurrecting an old thread,
I read a letter to the Editor in my newspaper this morning, which although heavily trimmed by the editor, retained enough to get my attention.
We've had arguments here on H2O about the
compatibility/incompatilibity of Religion & Science.
Recently, I cited the words of C.S.Lewis
and was hit with the 'False Dilemma' argument that some say Lewis' reasoning presents...
I posit, citing the letter below, there
exists a
'False Antagonism' fabricated between Science & Religion, and certainly promoted here by the Resident Atheists/Agnostics.
We agree with the letter writer below, that with the fantastic increases in technology and scientific research, there is going to be a "marriage" of Science and Religion, NOT a divorce.
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[3/16/99] Letter: A false antagonism
The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
helps restore the natural
union that always existed between science and religion. (March 11 news
article "Physicist fuses science, religion"). The foundation of modern
science was laid down by devout Christians (Galileo, Kepler,
Newton,
Maxwell, Planck, etc.) who studied nature to know more about its Creator.
It was the extension of the evolutionary ideas of Darwin to an atheistic
worldview that accentuated the false antagonism between science
and
religion.
The advent of new technologies has pushed science into areas replete
with ethical questions. Theoretical physicists are asking fundamental
questions that lead to deep ontological questions that were
normally
dealt with by philosophers and theologians. The subject matter of science
and religion are becoming one and the same.
Science alone cannot explain all human experience. Theories in physics,
the prototype of all
sciences, deal with matter and not at all with
human beings. In fact, data acquisition is done entirely by means of
mechanical devices. On the other hand, man emerges from nonliving matter
in theories of origins. But man is a
"detector" of God and the spiritual
and such things, contrary to the claims of some psychologists, are
not illusions.
Advances in science will expand the notion that the heavens are the
work of His hands and thus learn that man
shall not live on bread alone.
Herein lies the fusion of true science with true religion.
MOORAD ALEXANIAN
Wilmington
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LINK to this letter on Editorial Page/People's Forum.
Okay, Moderator 14, are you going to delete this post?
You've deleted just about everything else I've
posted in the last two weeks.
(and Mother Morgan, if you are reading this, YOU ARE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF MY COMMAND. STOP READING!)
TT