1. Atheist Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, said that "science and religion do not glower at each other…but, rather, represent Non-overlapping magisteria."
Gould wrote about baseball, too....This from a review of one of his books on the subject: "Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist. Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion."
2. But, today, there are scientists, largely those who are atheists and/or Marxists, who shout from the rooftops, ‘Scientific and religious belief are in conflict. They cannot both be right. Let us get rid of the one that is wrong!’ And, not just tolerated, today they are admired. It is a veritable orgy of competitive skepticism- but a skepticism supposedly built of science. Physicist Victor Stengler and Taner Edis have both published books championing atheism. Both men exhibit the salient characteristic of physicists endeavoring to draw general lessons about the cosmos from mathematical physics: They are willing to believe anything.
That makes it a religion....not science.
3. Despite the immense ideological power that the American scientific establishment wields, it still resents the stature of organized religion. On crucial matters of faith and morals, which loom so large in the lives of most individuals, they take a back seat. Members of the National Academy of Sciences are by a large majority persuaded that there is no God; men and women by the millions that there is.
(Covered in "The Devil's Delusion," by Berlinski)
4. Here is the nexus at which the two "Non-overlapping magisteria" actually do overlap: faith.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11.1
The irony is that so very much of what the atheist/Marxist scientists advance is based, not on evidence...but on faith:
The Multiverse Theory
String theory
The Higgs boson
The universe created out of nothing.
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Global Warming
But....just as the atheist/Marxist scientists are wrong to attack religion when the above is based on the same things as theology is, so are religious folks wrong to attempt to use reason to convince others to join them in their beliefs.
Faith should be the province of religion.
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”―Thomas Aquinas
Two examples.....one from science, and one from baseball, that might just tend to indicate that there is an intelligent force behind what happens in our universe.
Coming right up.
Gould wrote about baseball, too....This from a review of one of his books on the subject: "Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist. Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion."
2. But, today, there are scientists, largely those who are atheists and/or Marxists, who shout from the rooftops, ‘Scientific and religious belief are in conflict. They cannot both be right. Let us get rid of the one that is wrong!’ And, not just tolerated, today they are admired. It is a veritable orgy of competitive skepticism- but a skepticism supposedly built of science. Physicist Victor Stengler and Taner Edis have both published books championing atheism. Both men exhibit the salient characteristic of physicists endeavoring to draw general lessons about the cosmos from mathematical physics: They are willing to believe anything.
That makes it a religion....not science.
3. Despite the immense ideological power that the American scientific establishment wields, it still resents the stature of organized religion. On crucial matters of faith and morals, which loom so large in the lives of most individuals, they take a back seat. Members of the National Academy of Sciences are by a large majority persuaded that there is no God; men and women by the millions that there is.
(Covered in "The Devil's Delusion," by Berlinski)
4. Here is the nexus at which the two "Non-overlapping magisteria" actually do overlap: faith.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11.1
The irony is that so very much of what the atheist/Marxist scientists advance is based, not on evidence...but on faith:
The Multiverse Theory
String theory
The Higgs boson
The universe created out of nothing.
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Global Warming
But....just as the atheist/Marxist scientists are wrong to attack religion when the above is based on the same things as theology is, so are religious folks wrong to attempt to use reason to convince others to join them in their beliefs.
Faith should be the province of religion.
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”―Thomas Aquinas
Two examples.....one from science, and one from baseball, that might just tend to indicate that there is an intelligent force behind what happens in our universe.
Coming right up.
