Is the pope .... ???

Question

Right when he says that science is too narrow to explain creation ...

should I have asked this question in a more intelligent section ..??????

Kbags ... im laughing with you

Amath ... good answer .. but wrong question

Descendantsfan... hmmmmmmmnnn ...yeah ..

Ral/Missgoody2.... lol

Answer 1

i do not believe religion should have a dictator

Answer 2

No, he is not. He is trying to justify the "God of the gaps" by saying, in essence, that if science doesn't explain it, it's because science CAN'T explain it, which allows for religious explanations. Not so.

Science is not too "narrow" to explain creation. It is too intellectually honest to claim to know at what point the infinite regress terminates. It freely admits that the answer has not yet been found, it doesn't just sit there and say "Goddidit"...like the Pope would have us do.


VLR

Answer 3

Yes.

This is not a condemnation of or an insult to science just a statement of its limitations.

Pope John Paul II said something similar in his Address to the participants in the Vatican conference on Cosmology on Saturday, 6 July 1985 posted on the Vatican's website: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1985/july/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19850706_conferenza-cosmologia_en.html

The Pope said that he believed that science could not discover everything. That "certain aspects of our lives rise above and move beyond the material dimension and, while having deep roots in the material, surpass the understanding which the natural sciences are capable of providing."

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

He's right. Science can explain a large part of it and no one should ever turn off their brain to the hard data. But there are questions that lie outside the realm of science. That doesn't sit well with the modern world that likes to think that everything can be explained materialistically but it's the truth.

Answer 5

The IQ in this section has plummeted. We truly have insufficient data at this time. If science is too narrow, it grows and changes with new information. Apparently, so does this pope. I like him.

Answer 6

It's amazing how often science and religion compliment each other! If not, The Vatican would not have some of the mst prolific scientists on its pay roll! I think it's all personal choice, and both science and religion have a place in our world.

Answer 7

I think a person who was once a member of the Hitler Youth has no business saying that science is too narrow to explain creation.

Answer 8

No Science has lots of explanations for creation. Were religion only gives one.

Answer 9

a more intelligent section? i half expected that you had posted this in religion and made that statement.

i think the vatican has always been full of crap because they're always under the guise of trying to protect the church... but it's really like the government trying to protect its structure. the issue is an ever-expanding knowledge versus blind faith. is there really any question here?

Answer 10

i don think the pope should be considered a reliable source for any information including that of the holy bible. it seems to me he is at the head of the modern day "Babylon the great" spoke of in the bible which is obvious by his "committing fornication with the worlds governments" and also by his misleading the nations.

he is false religion so therefor cannot be trusted for any information

i do believe in the creation account though and not evolution or the big bang theory

Answer 11

That's pretty rich coming from a guy who expects us to believe the entire universe was created in seven days! Nooo there's nothing narrow or vague about that statement.