The first I looked at as a «programmer»
with no knowledge of science had a glaring error in the very first routine.
This is incredibly dishonest manipulation that wouldn't fool anyone
with any knowledge of science.
Anyone
with any knowledge of science would be aware that several sets of measurements of a complex system, using entirely different methods of data collection, will come up with slightly different results.
I chose this path in part because I love the ecology of planted aquariums.Here I share
with you my knowledge of science applied to the planted aquarium, as well as the projects I've made over the years you can use on your planted aquariums.
Not exact matches
Data
science, or extracting
knowledge and insights from sets
of data, is a field
with the potential to seriously impact -LSB-...]
He's a well - regarded software engineer, researcher, and developer
with a deep
knowledge of computer
science and cryptography.
Kansas City fared better than New York City and Los Angeles in metrics such as tech workers per capita, share
of workers
with a Bachelor's degree or higher, entrepreneurial growth and share
of «
knowledge» workers, defined as those in occupations such as architecture, social
science, health care and education.
The first line in the Bible says: In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)... where does
science with all
of it's infinite
knowledge say that time, space and matter come from?
In short, how are the truths
of the Catholic faith to be synthesised
with the leaps forward in our
knowledge yielded by modern
science?
to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception
of reality, because our
knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times
of Jesus, there was no
science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform
with todays
knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by
science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.
The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed
with information,
knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses
of an even greater order than those
of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture
of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced
with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons,
sciences, nations and industries.
God is all Truth and has given all
knowledge of benefit to mankind, including
science because He was asked for it in prayer by people He had a relationship
with.
When this philosophic dimension is admitted, the natural
sciences become prime sources
of knowledge of man, not only in respect to those material properties shared
with the nonhuman world, but also in respect to the uniquely human qualities
of mind and spirit.
It is difficult to be a disciple
of Jesus and contemplate Scripture without engaging in the things involved
with the
science of knowledge of God; even less possible is it to be instructed without being engaged in education.
In his encyclical letter on the importance
of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study
of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching
of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the
knowledge of immaterial things by things
of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets
of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously,
with the study
of physical
science.»
The theological ideas
of Whitehead can commend themselves to Christians quite independently
of their interconnection
with science, but for me the fact that they are part
of an overview that also deepens our scientific
knowledge is a strong reason for giving them serious consideration.
Religion is the enemy
of science because
of the bias...
science is the enemy
of religion, because
science brings
knowledge, destroying belief often (as it has
with the bible)
In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented,
with emphasis on such subjects as the
sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious
knowledge with mastery
of other fields
of learning.
But theology isn't the end, it's the means; as
with a hard
science in the laboratory, the purpose
of gathering
knowledge is to use it as a basis for further work and increased understanding.
Vic Well if you believe the earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old then don't bother going to a reputable
science site stick
with apologetic sites, they will bolster your vast
knowledge of well, nothing.
However, I tell you that the QURAN is a preserved word
of God and until you show that there are contradictions within that book or
with SCIENCE, then you shouldn't keep uttering that it is a book made up by MEN (don't speak in that which you have no
knowledge of!).
From this it is an easy step to: «The more the
sciences progress, the more they provide us
with knowledge of the process
of self «organization that clearly suggests the existence
of a divine source
of power and perfection.»
With that in mind, I generally discount all
of the
science and
knowledge that has been developed throughout human history as being useful for living in the world we understand, but not truth by any means.
Against new
knowledge, as men gain new wisdoms from
science and new power in the universe, there is no Lordship
of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak
with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns
of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore
of the Sea
of Tiberias.
We can postpone the fateful day by insisting that metaphysically, «form» is to do
with something outside the «reductionist» methodology ofscience, but surely it would be better to tread the path
of finding a synthesis between
science and philosophy so that the two areas
of knowledge are genuinely seen in practice to be expressions
of the one Wisdom
of God.
The basic insight
of the sociology
of knowledge (my particular gate into the social
sciences) is that,
with the exception
of an acute toothache, which can be experienced without support from others, we accept the reality that is taken as such by those around us.
Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode
of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological
knowledge about God's saving action in the history
of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think
of God as the transcendent ground
of all reality,
of its existence and
of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality
with which we are confronted, nor as a member
of its causal series.
At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept
of Nature (1920) and Principles
of Natural
Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret
Science and the Modern World (1925) in line
with these earlier works, and was acquainted
with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make
of its doctrine
of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality
of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.
For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept
of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations
of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions
of the sort
of blind faith in natural
science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures
of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue
science or replace it
with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms
of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.
Here is the sheer miracle
of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in
science and the immense scope
of modern
knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere
of the ancient countryside,
with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout
of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total
of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.
As was suggested earlier, those born near the turn
of the century have seen within it amazing advances — not only in
science, technology, and increased
knowledge, but in the conquest
of disease
with the prolongation
of life, an increase in the recognition
of race and sex equality
with accompanying legal steps; manifold ministries
of welfare to the poor, the young, and the elderly; a growing concern for civil rights in many
of its facets.
With our
knowledge of 21st century empirical
science, we can dismiss the empirical errors and focus on the metaphysical principles which underlie material beings from a most general perception
of reality.
But it is clearly something different to deny
with the positivist that there is any other valid means to
knowledge because the method
of science circumscribes the limits
of the whole cognitive sphere.
Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and
knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition
of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function
of philosophy is the study
of the usage
of words and sentences, also treated
science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each
with its own set
of rules.
It is to be expected that Christianity should be developed anew
with greater fullness at this time when the presentation to the world
of the Faith
of Christ has become too meagre precisely on that level
of the relation between religion and the physical
sciences which is the natural meeting place today between revealed and natural
knowledge.
Let them blend new
sciences and theories and the understanding
of the most recent discoveries
with Christian morality and the teaching
of Christian doctrine, so that their religious culture and morality may keep pace
with scientific
knowledge and
with the constantly progressing technology... Thus they will be able to interpret and evaluate all things in a truly Christian spirit,... and priests will be able to present to our contemporaries the doctrine
of the Church concerning God, man and the world, in a manner more adapted to them so that they may receive it more willingly.»
As contrasted
with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view
of nature, postreductionist in its view
of science, postanthropocentric in its view
of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to
knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.
The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development
of education on the basis
of the
sciences, both natural and social, for only
with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance
with that
knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods
of history.
Asking how the universe came to be is, if it's not a pointless question, on the very frontier
of science and discussion
of it
with our level
of knowledge is therefore questionable.
In fact, we shall even argue that revelatory
knowledge not only does not contradict or interfere
with scientific
knowledge, but that it actually promotes the autonomous pursuit
of science along
with other disciplines.
The only reasonable answer I can come up
with is that the bible was the word
of man — not god — and it was based on legends, stories,
knowledge and
science as it existed about 2000 years ago.
The former, which may be called primitive
science, describes the
knowledge of the properties
of materials gained by craftsmen working
with wood, stone and metals, and that
of plants and animals obtained by experience.
If I could be «hardwired» to the truth
of reality in this propositional
knowledge way (
with the help
of say
science or scripture etc..)
sciences normally don't question their own existence and cognitive operations, nor does
knowledge of the universe occur anywhere except within the persons who know it: «
science is not capable
of dealing
with the question
of its own facticity... In
Let us be clear in our minds that there is a sharp difference between the attitude
of the dedicated man
of science and the man who,
with little real
knowledge of science, sees in it the answer to all the problems
of humanity.
In the nutshell, the Mind and Life Meeting (Annual meeting
of His Holiness
with the Scientists) is intended to garner and share
knowledge on similar grounds between Buddhist
Science and Western
Science.
If it turns out that the Higgs doesn't exist then it will be wonderful news to find that out because it will mean that our
knowledge of science has INCREASED
with that new
knowledge.
Science is valuable but can deal
with only limited areas
of knowledge; the most important truths come from revelation, and theology is queen
of the
sciences.
My final conclusion is that there is real satisfaction in a philosophy which can bring under a common viewpoint the vast body
of secondary but verifiable
knowledge of the external world which constitutes
science,
with its necessarily deterministic and probabilistic interpretations, and the primary but private
knowledge which each
of us has
of his own stream
of consciousness, more or less continually directed toward the finding
of an acceptable course through the difficulties
of the external world by means
of voluntary actions.
Once you think
of it as within, which means the same thing as in, and consider the level
of knowledge the people had to understand God's word
with, then
science and religion can go hand and hand here, like the other
science and archaeology discoveries mentioned above.