When combined with the non-dualistic physical ontology
of modern discovery, the holism has been put under threat and the reductionist reaction of much atheism has been fostered (see our May issue).
Nora Gedgaudas, author of Primal Body - Primal Mind, visits Dr Lo Radio to discuss the health benefits of a hunter - gatherer diet with the addition
of modern discoveries.
Not exact matches
Known since the Middle Ages, colchicine had been one
of those ancient
discoveries that had found new life in a host
of scientific and medical applications during the
modern era.
As the backbone
of our society, construction impacts nearly every industry directly or indirectly — whether it's building new labs to foster scientific
discoveries, hospitals to tend to our sick or injured, or
modern classrooms to learn.
With the recent
discovery of anatomically
modern humans evolving 100,000 years earlier than previously estimated, it's not out
of the question that our ancestors did a lot
of moving about.
The Happiness Advantage reveals the most important
discoveries coming out
of modern psychology.»
It's amusing how you use the
discoveries of modern science to retro - fit the validity and understanding
of bible verses.
He is the author
of Genesis and the Big B.ang, the
discovery of harmony between
modern science and the Bible, now in seven languages.
In this
discovery, I owed much to Karl Löwith's lectures on the theological rootage
of modern philosophies
of history as well as to Gerhard von Rad's interpretation
of the Old Testament.
The
discoveries of modern science are real advances in the knowing
of God's creation and so have an impact upon theology.
The editorial advocated a re-evaluation
of Thomas» thought in the light
of the
discoveries of modern science and suggested that in such a work
of re-evaluation and realignment Holloway's contribution was eminently worthy ofconsideration.
everything from how the Bible said the earth is round before Galileo or any
of the other
modern discoveries, all the way to how relationships work in the sense that men crave respect and women crave love, and everything in between.
In defining the complex notion
of wisdom, Deane - Drummond introduces the concept
of wisdom as an understanding
of different facets
of reality, a contemplative «way
of knowing» lost by
modern science with its focus on specific
discoveries.
The presentation
of theology, that is the way in which the Church's teachings have been integrated with secular sciences, has not kept up with the
discoveries of modern science.
Hand in hand with this Western victory over its Eastern Christian roots went a new
discovery of nature, not the nature that has been present in
modern art, but rather a nature charged with Christ's presence.
To cite just one example, it is difficult to see how this synthesis, relying as it does upon a basically Aristotelian concept
of nature or form as a static unchanging reality, can accommodate the
discoveries of modern science.
I shall discuss how much traditional metaphysics and theology needs to be revised in the light
of modern scientific
discoveries with four examples: the «new physics»
of the 17th century, the theory
of relativity, quantum theory and evolution.
And we find that the deepest
discoveries of modern physics and mathematics give hints, if not proof, that the mind
of man has something about it that lies beyond the power
of either physics or mathematics to describe.
We think that
modern science's
discovery of the inter-related, hierarchical unity
of all the parts
of the cosmos provides a solution: namely that individuals are defined through their universal relationships - see for instance our Sept 2006 editorial: The Catholic View
of Matter: Towards a New Synthesis.
Actually,
modern science put a lot more
of effort into discrediting
discoveries that point to validity
of claims made by religion, than the opposite.
When a
modern historian sets about writing the history
of the United States he feels it necessary
of course to go back to the period
of discovery and colonization; and to give some account
of the European people, chiefly the English who colonized and came to rule the Continent.
Whitehead pointed out long ago, in Science and the
Modern World, that the habits
of medieval rationalism prepared the way for the scientific
discoveries of the seventeenth century, an insight given far more documentation, depth, and scope in the writings
of the historian and philosopher
of science Stanley L. Jaki in our time.
In one sense the
discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development
of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the
modern economy; the separation
of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy
of the world
of science helped the development
of technology; and the autonomy
of different areas
of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.
Modern study
of the Bible has brought the
discovery that the Christian hope is not at all exclusively tied to an other - worldly form; indeed, as we have seen, that is just what it had started to lead men away from.
The difference between Greek pessimism and the oriental and
modern variety is that the Greeks had not made the
discovery that the pathetic mood may be idealized, and figure as a higher form
of sensibility.
Too bad
modern science ignores possibly the greatest scientific
discovery of all time because
of an anti-religious agenda.
We accept and even embrace the
discoveries of modern science.
Modern technology is evidence of the fruitfulness and truth of the basic discoveries and theories of modern sc
Modern technology is evidence
of the fruitfulness and truth
of the basic
discoveries and theories
of modern sc
modern science.
This situation is witnessed to by the fact that the only metaphysical issue where there is a virtual consensus among mainstream twentieth century Catholic thinkers, apart from the reality
of human subjectivity mentioned above, is the claim that the
discoveries of modern science should not have a significant influence upon metaphysics.
Might the
discoveries of modern science have implications for theology?
Modern science's
discovery of objective facts is no exception to this basic pattern
of human observation.
A second set
of theological issues to which the
discoveries of modern physics are relevant concerns the nature
of time.
This pamphlet explains how the
discoveries of modern science lead us to abandon the popular notion that faith and science do not agree.
One
of the important consequences
of the major intellectual
discoveries in the
modern world, from Copernicus to Einstein, is our increased understanding
of the detailed empirical processes which shape our thinking, behavior, and being.
Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any
discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.
Yet a truly
modern subject or «I» is a doubled or self - alienated center
of consciousness, and is so in a uniquely Cartesian internal and radical doubt, one never decisively present in previous cognitive or philosophical thinking, although its ground had been established by Augustine's philosophical
discovery of the subject
of consciousness.
It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves
of modern medical and surgical
discoveries, and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world
of spirits and miracles.
Government monopolies over information and technology are being broken down as scientists, engineers and visionaries share their dreams and
discoveries via the global network
of modern communication.
Susan wrote,» I have provided you with a link to the noblest concept
of reality available on this planet at this time, a philosophy that is not only logical but commensurate with
modern discovery.»
I have provided you with a link to the noblest concept
of reality available on this planet at this time, a philosophy that is not only logical but commensurate with
modern discovery.
On the other hand the Christian transcendent, personal God, Pell argues, has a rational foundation in the reflections
of Greek philosophy, as well as the
discoveries of modern science.
This
modern meaning
of hermeneutics is only the
discovery, the manifestation,
of the hermeneutic situation which was present from the beginning
of the Gospel but hidden.
On the other hand, theology remains for the most part out
of touch with the
discoveries of modern science, and so it fails to direct its mystagogical expertise toward a natural world that corresponds to a plausible cosmology.
Bishop John Austin Baker, as dean
of Westminster Abbey, put it this way — in a guide to the Abbey — commenting on the fact that the Abbey is the final resting place
of Charles Darwin: «Today most Christians... are glad that one
of the intellectual giants who laid the foundation
of our
modern understanding
of the world should lie here in the house
of God in whom he himself did not believe but whom we know so much better as a result
of his
discoveries.»
There are only gullible people like yourself, who have been suckered into the ancient, illogical, stagnant mythology
of magical thinking and others, like me, who choose to pursue the scientific method and spend the rest
of my life improving my own knowledge with new
discoveries and participating in the great
modern renaissance
of mankind!
It is impossible to use electric lights and the wireless and to avail ourselves
of modern medical and surgical
discoveries and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world
of spirits and miracles («New Testament and Mythology,» Kerygma and Myth [Harper & Row, 1966]-RRB-.
This is not at all a
modern discovery, though the «theologians
of revolution» seem to think so.
This connection was not just the
discovery of modern critics, for it is part
of the kerygma itself.
This is typical ofCatholic culture... the experts say that his theory
of «continuity», which holds true both in the natural sciences and in geometry, accords well with some
of the great
discoveries of modern physics... (he) knows, in the light
of truth, how to engage fully the resources
of reason with which he has been endowed by God himself.
And the whole foundation
of the Faith movement,
of course, is an attempt to integrate
modern rationality, not least as inspired by the
discoveries of modern science, with the timeless truths
of the Faith.