Always there are these question here and conversation elsewhere about why Christians blah blah and Science blah blah. Was is Copernicus who, discovering that the Earth was not at the center of the Universe caused this schism? Scientists were routinely denounce and even imprisoned as heretics when refuting scripture with scientific discovery. Could the church not instead have interpreted science and the work of God? Couldn't God have created these systems and laws which govern our reality? Or is the herecy in trying to understand what God has created?
2006-07-09 17:21:23 · 4 answers · asked by Jim 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Umm, this question isn't about God. It's about the origin of the seperation of Religion and Science. When, how, or why did this happen?
2006-07-09 17:30:40 · update #1
I think that the problem comes from trying to understand the universe that God created, we can't. That doesn't make sense to most scientists or anyone else for that matter, how could we possibly figure out the magnitude of Gods creation.
2006-07-09 17:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a good question. I think figures such a Galileo and Newton were significant figures in this process, but in a sense they are just figureheads that represent a growing movement of scientific discovery that created disequilibrium for the centrist role the Church played in the pre-scientific world.
The Enlightenment period further contributed to the divide, suggesting that there is a separation between rationality and emotion and belief.
These I think are reactions to an unfamiliar shifting world in which the old truths were no longer operational.
There are a number of theologians today that do engage science and religion both, especially process theologians, those who are working in ecotheology and those who are using complexity theory to understand the universe.
The journal of Science and Theology has a great article here that you might enjoy--it says it all so much better than I do:
http://www.stnews.org/Commentary-2894.htm
2006-07-10 01:09:51 · answer #2 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many different religions in the world, you could even create a religion in our world, and many people do, they are called cults. God is different to different people, laws are different to different people. There are many similarities in religions. The Universe exists, science explains how it functions physically, materially, but religion explains how it functions spiritually as we all know there is some type of soul, spirit, ghost, chii concioussness...etc. Religions have beliefs, phrophecies, faith, prayer, chant, meditation etc...Science has facts, data, hypothesis, research, experiments, calculations...etc...The are both made by people in our understanding.
2006-07-10 00:38:22 · answer #3 · answered by sidg5582 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's part of God's plan I should say,time will come that we will discover the right answer for our questions about him...
2006-07-10 00:26:52 · answer #4 · answered by Vocal Prowess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋