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- From: gustin@evs2.uia.ac.be (Emmanuel Gustin)
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.025934.14280@reks.uia.ac.be>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:59:34 GMT
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- Okay, science can't tell us anything about religion; a God you can subject
- to scientific study is not a God but a part of nature. The other way
- around is possible; because if God knows everything, He could tell us
- something we don't know, and if he is all-powerfull, the He can show his
- powers, doing the impossible. And most religions tell us He did...
- However, then we COULD make a scientific study about His existence,
- implying that God is part of nature, and thus cannot act against nature's
- laws. So all this logic adds up to nothing. My hasty conclusion: whether
- you believe God exists or not, logic won't help you to convince anyone.
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- More important: Science can't accept religion as a part of its structure -
- nor superstition of prejudice. But religion has to accept logic and
- science, and many religious people have no trouble with that - what the
- pope tried to show when he apologized for the Galilei trial. Theology is
- based on faith but is not a purely mystical affair. As G.K. Chesterton
- made father Brown say when caught fake priest: attacking Logic is bad
- theology. People can't (at least not forever) believe in something that is
- clearly not true. Thus mixing religion into science is *impossible*, but
- mixing science into religion is an *inevitability*.
-
- Yes, I know there are lots of people who refuse to mix some science in
- their religion - creationists and others. But don't blame religion for
- this; it's bad science AND bad theology. It is true that religion is
- conservative by nature and evolves slower than science, because religious
- people find it hard to admit that their beliefs are not THE thruth - maybe
- because they are more important to them than Schrodingers equation to a
- scientist, even an 'elderly' scientist.
-
- E. Gustin
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