Is science a touchy subject in catholic schools?

Question

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Answer 1

I think that science is a touchy subject anywhere.
Science doesn't give you the truth - science seeks the truth-

Answer 2

No.

Catholicism supports science in its discovery of God's creation.

Here is a list of some Catholic scientists:

Fr. Roger Boscovich - the father of modern atomic theory

Nicolaus Copernicus - the Heliocentric Universe

Marie Curie - Radioactivity

Leonardo da Vinci - Artist, Inventor, Scientist

Rene Descartes - mathematician, scientist and philosopher

Enrico Fermi - Atomic Physics

Alexander Fleming - Penicillin

Galileo Galilei - the New Science

Johannes Gutenberg - printing press inventor

Fr. Athanasius Kircher - a father of Egyptology

Monsignor Georges Lemaître - the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - the Revolution in Chemistry

Marcello Malpighi - Microscopic Anatomy

Guglielmo Marconi - Radio Developer

Gregor Mendel - the Laws of Inheritance

Louis Pasteur - the Germ Theory of Disease

Fr. Giambattista Riccioli - first to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body

Erwin Schrodinger - Wave Mechanics

Andreas Vesalius - the New Anatomy

John von Neumann - the Modern Computer

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Not at all. Given that the pope accepts evolutionary theory, there is no problem with science teaching in catholic schools. It's not a touchy subject. Not even how Galileo was treated, it's too long ago to really trouble anybody. It's OK to teach that the earth is not in the center of the universe

Answer 4

No it isn't because Catholics don't rely on personal guesses about the meaning of the Bible. Catholics have access to genuine authoritative interpretation of the Scriptures. True biblical interpretation does not and cannot conflict with true facts of science, for truth cannot conflict with truth. Since the Catholic Church possesses the fullness of biblical truth just as its founder Jesus Christ said it would, true science cannot conflict with its teachings, and therefore there is no problem teaching such truths - both biblical and scientific - in Catholic schools.

Answer 5

I go to a Catholic school and science really isn't a touchy subject. Our teacher taught evolution and then we are required to take a theology class every year and in that class they talk about creationism and really they present both sides. But also realize that all science isn't about evolution and how we came to be.

Answer 6

As I understand it, no. Not near the touchy subject it is in public schools. They seem just to layer the religion on top of the science.

Answer 7

Nope.

My kids go to Catholic school, and they are learning biology, chemistry, and physics at the gradeschool level. And yes, they cover the theory of evolution, too.

Answer 8

It would be a bit odd if it was, so many branches of science can be traced back to work began in Catholic monestaries.

Answer 9

Everythings touchy in Catholic school!

Answer 10

Not generally, no, Catholicism tends to accept the scientific consensus as true and favor a non-liiteral view of the bible.