At times, certain assertions of
scientific knowledge have even been opposed to these truths.
The fact of the matter is that you can not defend the myth in light of the real
scientific knowledge we have today.
Can you not see that you are following the same logic that people without
scientific knowledge have followed since the beginning of recorded human history?
Pope John Paul II stated in 1996: «[N] ew
scientific knowledge has led us to realize that the theory of evolution is no longer a mere hypothesis.
Despite this intense examination the theory has only strengthened and solidified as
scientific knowledge has expanded.
when i was in grade school i constantly read science books, i knew the position of the planets, their distances from the sun, diameters, etc. however, by the time i graduated high school, 50 % of
the scientific knowledge i had gained had already been proved untrue.
I wonder how many of them wouldn't have declared themselves full - fledged atheists had
they the scientific knowledge we have today?
The Bible is not a textbook on science, for it was written many centuries before the modern scientific method and the vast accumulation of facts we call
scientific knowledge had been dreamed of.
Recently, even those who accept physico - chemical entities as a basis of
all scientific knowledge have realized that something more may be involved in them than the properties of mass, energy, etc., attributed to them in classical theory.
(Psalm 8: 3,4)-- simply because man's
scientific knowledge has been very greatly extended.
This is a modern invention due to the extensive
scientific knowledge we have today about conception and the development of an unborn baby.
The problem, as he saw it, was that the explosion of
scientific knowledge had coincided with the implosion of academic medicine under the ecocomic pressures of a costly health - care system.
I mean, the conditions are much more suitable now, not just in terms of
the scientific knowledge we have these days you can apply to it, but also the environmental conditions.
He wanted to know if our growing
scientific knowledge had been matched by increasing wisdom.
Working in a capacity that allows me to interact with diverse communities to collect data and
scientific knowledge would be very rewarding.
However, current
scientific knowledge have recanted the findings of these studies, acknowledging that this behavior is not typical of wolves living in the wild.
Scientific knowledge has yet to catch up with our willingness to break new legal ground.
Not exact matches
Metzger points out that there are far more asteroids near Earth than could ever be explored solely through
scientific funding, and highlights the role terrestrial mining operations
have played in expanding geologic
knowledge.
Much like the original periodic table, it
has greatly democratized
scientific knowledge.
Trump's protestations to the contrary aside,
scientific evidence shows that the mere
knowledge that one
has profited from a relationship in the past often leads to preferential behavior.
In the face of greater and greater
scientific knowledge our need for God
has actually increased not decreased.
Either the vast majority of
scientific knowledge that
has worked developing modern medicine and technology is on a wrong foundation (that makes the success of medicine and technology virtually impossible), or the bible is wrong in some of it's facts.
The Cult is related to the phenomenon described as «scientism»; both
have a tendency to treat the body of
scientific knowledge as a holy book or an a-religious revelation that offers simple and decisive resolutions to deep questions.
He says that he
would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't
have been contrived;
scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.
Quite a few scientists
have religious beliefs yet still manage to tie their shoes and advance
scientific knowledge.
Poor people tend to
have less
knowledge, less ability to assess
scientific information, and fewer options to earn their livings.
Everything you
've claimed so far can be explained with just a little logical reasoning and / or
scientific knowledge.
I also think you
have to consider some things such as the many medical laws in the Old Testament that were well beyond
scientific knowledge at the time, regarding what people were to eat, germs, etc..
If there is a government conspiracy to suppress the reports and keep for itself the
scientific knowledge the aliens bring, it seems to
have been a singularly ineffective policy so far.
Scientism itself could never be proven or established by the
scientific method so you
have conflict from the get go (i.e. only
knowledge out of
scientific method is fact can not be proven and it is actually the reverse as the Hubble constant alone disproved all previous known cosmology as to age of the universe).
Research that is
scientific must
have the qualities of «exteriority, neutrality, technicity, and generality»; intellectual activities and investigations that can not meet these criteria... can not provide us with real
knowledge.
@geraldh — believers
have always injected god to fill the gaps in
scientific knowledge.
The growth of biological
knowledge is producing
scientific facts that contradict the evolutionary theory, not confirm it, a fact that famous Prof. Steven Jay Gould of Harvard
has described as «the trade secret of paleontology.»
Even an extreme
scientific materialist such as Dawkins
has to acknowledge that there is such a thing as moral
knowledge, and that it can not come from science because we can not derive «ought» from «is.»
But Science is Can be Proof in If You
Have The Time, Equipement and knowledge you can try to disprove every scientific Conclusion ever made if you have the time and resources.The Fact that the God Is A Unknown Fills Me With skepticism.No Hard Proof He exist Makes I Flawed sci
Have The Time, Equipement and
knowledge you can try to disprove every
scientific Conclusion ever made if you
have the time and resources.The Fact that the God Is A Unknown Fills Me With skepticism.No Hard Proof He exist Makes I Flawed sci
have the time and resources.The Fact that the God Is A Unknown Fills Me With skepticism.No Hard Proof He exist Makes I Flawed science
= > There is
knowledge other than what is current consensus of
scientific facts (they change as we
have a history of science).
Until then, I
have my First Amendment right to express my
knowledge that religious belief does not
scientific theory make.
Our increase
knowledge of our natural and
scientific world
has not led to an increase of peace and tolerance.
The
scientific epistemology
has dominated human
knowledge; especially the method of the natural sciences
has been regarded as most reliable not only for natural sciences, but also for social and human sciences.
In fact, there
have been a large number of scientists throughout history who
have made major
scientific discoveries that
have shaped so much of our
knowledge, and they worked out of desire to learn the truth about the origin and nature of God's creation.
The more I
have studied the bible, and believe me I
have spent years studying it and other religious books, the more I see this as a hangover from primitive days when our ancestors
had no
scientific knowledge and
had to imagine gods to explain things.
``... [the] gulf between the Church and the
scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing
knowledge by the press, radio, and film,
have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the
knowledge gained from the application of the
scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I
have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I
've never seen or heard from any gods nor
have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
And this is what the Catechism teaches: The question about the origins of the world and of man
has been the object of many
scientific studies which
have splendidly enriched our
knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development of life - forms and the appearance of man.
As
has been argued in the pages of Faith before, as most scientists intuit,
scientific knowledge is no more provisional or functional in character than all
knowledge of the physical.
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man
has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man
has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world
has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any
scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
Later the idea gained ground that we can not «speak of nature apart from human perception in the historical development of
knowledge», that all
knowledge is «a creative interaction between the known and the knower» and that therefore there is no System of
scientific knowledge or of technology which does not
have the subjective purposes and faith - presuppositions of humans built into it.
The first part of the same column deals with a topic that
has recently become more prominent in the Christian interpretation of our
scientific knowledge of the world, namely our experience of beauty.
The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture...
has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new
knowledge, by the
scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.
Narrative is not a primitive mode of
knowledge that
has been superseded by science nor a mere appendage to
scientific thought.