Sunday, February 12, 2017

In The Beginning...Are religion and science at war?

Scientism (see the Magician's Twin)has caused many people to lose their faith.  Faith and reason cannot be opposed as they flow from the same truth, aka God.  Are Christianity and science at war with each other?  Are we now in the real "Dark Ages"?  Salvo takes this on:

In the Beginning

Episodes in the Origin & Development of Science

"Not according to leading historians. "The greatest myth in the history of science and religion holds that they have been in a state of constant conflict," wrote historian of science Ronald Numbers in 2009.1 Even though he and other historians of science have documented this conclusion thoroughly, many myths about the alleged warfare between science and theistic religion continue to be promulgated in popular literature and textbooks."

"This distinction is especially helpful when encountering statements from scientists that purport to be scientific but, on closer examination, prove actually to be theological, and thus outside the domain of science. Take the following statement by Stephen Hawking, for example, which appeared in his bestselling, co-authored book The Grand Design: "Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."2