Hello class,
I am doing my presentation on Can Creationism and science coexist?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/can-creationism-and-science-coexist-this-scholar-helps-evangelicals-to-think-so/ In the article it talks about a book called "Faith & Fossils : The Bible, Creation & Evolution" by Lester L. Grabbe , he believes that one can accept that God created the universe, and that life operates with the principles that include evolution.
In this youtube link a preacher and scientist talks about how the book of God's work is science, it breaks down how he created the world and humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5sMva2ydoU
I did some more research on scientist and Christians and found that the Father of Science (Galileo) was a Christian. From personal experience, I think science breaks down how God created the world and when you think like that it really is amazing. How many atoms made Adam?
DQ
1. Do you think creationism and science can coexist? Why or why not?
2. Do you think being a scientist and being a Christian is contradicting ?
3. if we don't know what created the big boom, could it have been created by an outside force?
Do you think creationism and science can coexist? Why or why not?
ReplyDeleteCreationism and science are very different in the sense that science is designed to evolve and simply uncover the way the world works, whereas creationism is based on what was written in the bible, which is supposed to just be accepted with faith. So, both come from completely different ideas of how to gather information and come to conclusions based on that information. So, I don't see either of them as particularly compatible.
"From personal experience, I think science breaks down how God created the world" - Can you say more about the nature of those personal experiences? I've not had any personal experiences that break it down for me, nor have many others of us.
ReplyDelete"How many atoms made Adam?" Presumably as many as make you and me. According to the internet," for a typical human of 70 kg, there are almost 7*1027 atoms (that's a 7 followed by 27 zeros!) Another way of saying this is "seven billion billion billion." Does the magnitude of that number imply a creator, or a marvelous process of creation? Those are not the same.
I'm temperamentally inclined to look for bridges and not walls, so I'd love to say religion and science are compatible. The most progressive religion IS science-friendly (consider the Dalai Lama's declaration that Buddhism must seek an accord with science), and the best science is religion-friendly at least to the extent of acknowledging that no one knows what sparked the cosmic singularity or the advent of even the simplest forms of life. (Darwin said he thought the question of god was beyond the mind of man.) Are those questions beyond the reach of science, in principle? I wouldn't go that far. But I do think the lines of communication between religious and godless people should stay open, and so I applaud your presence in our class, Debria.
If we're talking young-Earth creation, though, there's not much promise of real compatibility of specific belief. We can still strive, though, to respect one another's humanity. We can seek a compatibilism of kindness and a generosity of spirit, whatever we think about god and "the beginning."
I look at science as the breakdown of God's creation. For example how many cells require us to function and it makes me realize how intricately we were created.
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