Science vs. Religion - Anyone Ever Read It?

Question

Thinking about buying this book as I am beginning my own journey of sorts of understanding. Anyone ever read it? Thoughts? Suggestions of other similiar books?

The author is David J. Turell, MD

Answer 1

I'm so sick of the nonsense I read about this. There are some real stupid answers here.

Science vs Religion... the topic itself is a misrepresentation of the debate.

There is not one religious person that has a problem with science that I'm aware of.

What most Christians have issue with is the theory of evolution. Somehow, evolution speaks for every aspect of science in this case and Christians get labelled as "against science".

If you take an honest look at evolution, you will see that it is just as faith based as any other religion.
The false science and lies that go into representing that theory is mind boggling.
Evolution is the greatest hinderance to scientific progress this world has ever known.
IT CANNOT BE PROVEN BEYOND THE MICRO LEVEL!!!!!

When will people realize this?

http://www.nwcreation.net/audio/index.html

Answer 2

The apostle Paul wrote 1Tim.6:20,21; " O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith ... "

So I do not know about Science vs. Religion, but it appears science does not add any good news or faith based facts to the bible. It has to resemble the people that use to worship the heavens, without knowing how the heavens got there.

Answer 3

I just read the authors blurb. It's a load of crap. If you're looking for something that unbiasedly covers the history of science I'd go with a short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson.

Answer 4

Seems silly. Either you base your beliefs about the world from observation and experience (science) or you believe in things without having any basis to believe them (faith).

"There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: 'Let us be friends.' It reminds me of the bargain the rooster wished to make with the horse: 'Let us agree not to step on each other's feet.'" --Robert Ingersoll

Answer 5

Awww... ya don't need a book... here it is in a nutshell. Science essentially is oblivious to god... and rightfully so. Science is looking for natural explanations for natural things. The presumption of science is that everything that can exist and anything that can occur in the universe is, by definition, natural... even if we cannot presently understand it or explain it. Again, this is as it should be.

Religion does not see it that way, though.

At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, SCIENCE says: "We don't know... OK, boys... let's roll up our sleeves, dig in and find out."

At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, RELIGION (imagine South Park - Officer Barbrady) says: "That's too complicated. God did it. Move along. Nothing to see here. Everybody go home now."

Religion exists in a strange netherworld between two logical fallacies (flaws in thinking)... the 'Argument From Incredulity' ("I can't understand how that might have come to be; therefore, God did it.") and the 'God of the Gaps' fallacy, also known as the 'Divine Fallacy'. The God of the Gaps lives at the bleeding edge of science... and religionists view the advances of science as an encroachment into their territory. They are at war, fighting a rear-guard action against the advance of scientists... and the preoccupied scientists, for the most part, don't even KNOW that they're in a fight.

Science doesn't attack god. That is true from the perspective of science... as I said, science is oblivious to god... he/she/it is simply out of scope. From the standpoint of the religiose, though, science is the mortal enemy. First they took away the earth being the center of the universe, and the focus and purpose of all creation... the god of the gaps got his butt whipped. Next thing you know, lightening is just an electrical discharge... not a manifestation of the wrath of god. The god of the gaps got his butt kicked again. Disease caused by germs, not demons. Ouch. Planets aren't wandering stars... they are bodies that orbit the sun. Whap. Stars aren't little lights placed on the firmament (the solid barrier between heaven and earth... i.e., the sky)... they are actually suns, like our own, unimaginably far away. God of the Gaps gets kicked right in the balls. And on, and on, and on. The God of the Gaps has NEVER won a fight with science... NOT ONCE. Every time there is a scrimmage between science and the God of the Gaps, another gap gets filled up with knowledge, and the God of the Gaps slinks away, with his tail between his legs. Earth isn't 6,000 years old... it's 4.5 BILLION years old. G of G gets kicked in the nuts again. And on and on... and on.

Well, they're tired of getting kicked in the nuts... so, they've changed tactics. Rather than fighting the battle on the basis of knowledge and evidence, they fight it on the basis of lies and misdirection. Science won't engage them... heck... it won't even acknowledge them. So, rather than engaging science, they just appeal to their constituency, which is scientifically ignorant for the most part, and feed them a bunch of plausible sounding pseudo-scientific lies. Take 'Intelligent Design'. The strategy is not to argue this on a scientific basis... it is to "Teach the controversy"... except in the scientific community, THERE IS NO CONTROVERSY. But their dumbass constituency doesn't go to the scientific community for their scientific information... no... they go to the people they TRUST... their SPIRITUAL LEADERS... and they get fed pseudoscience, misrepresentations and lies.

Willful ignorance, lies and delusions are winning. Science is losing. The God of the Gaps, FINALLY, is holding the line against knowledge, reason and critical thought.

So, while it is true that science doesn't attack god, that doesn't really matter... because as long as they PERCEIVE science (in general) to be an attack on god, we're going to be in an ongoing fight. At some point, in the near future, we need to wake up and realize that, or we're going to end up back in the Dark Ages.

Answer 6

I don't know about the book, but the title suggests that it's something I wouldn't want to read.


There is no inherent conflict between science and religion.

the only people who believe so are misinformed extreme atheists and misinformed fundamentalists.

the rest of us don't see these as opposing forces.

Answer 7

Nope, who's the author?

Answer 8

no, i havent read it, but it sounds interesting. i will be looking for it so i can read it now. thanks for the idea. blessed be.

Answer 9

NO I HAVE NOT READ THAT BOOK JET

Answer 10

I don't want to talk about it, it just makes me so mad.