Is Science Against Religion? - Pt. 2
Is Science Against Religion? - Pt. 2
The force with which the claim, " Science kicks Religion out the door" is settling as a truth claim in the minds of many is simply overwhelming. In my previous write-up, we saw how clearly it is established as a fact that the fathers of modern science were all religious. These included the likes of Galileo Galilei, a devout Catholic whom Albert Einstein called the “father of modern science.â€
Scientists like Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Aquinas, Leibniz and James Clark Maxwell were all religious. These scientists did not only claim to be religious, but they lived by the 'book'. A man like Newton wrote more about theology than he wrote about science.
Modern scientists like Penrose, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, who are nowhere near-religious, propose a universe without God. They believe Religion is a virus that destroys humanity. These and many others go with the notion that the rise of science is the collapse of religion.
God, as talked about by religion, or should I say Christianity, is spiritual, and not composed of physical matter. This implies that God is beyond the reach of science, since anything beyond the physical is not in the domain of science.
One would have to analyze all aspects and characteristics of the universe: the physical realm and the metaphysical realm in order to declare peace or enmity between Science and Religion.
In the book "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, the following assertions are made:
"Every scientific statement in the long run, however complicated it looks, really means something like, "I pointed the telescope to such and such a part of the sky at 2:20 A.M. on January 15th and saw so-and-so," or, "I put some of this stuff in a pot and heated it to such-and-such a temperature and it did so-and-so." Do not think I am saying anything against science: I am only saying what its job is. And the more scientific a man is, the more (I believe) he would agree with me that this is the job of science— and a very useful and necessary job it is too. But why anything comes to be there at all, and whether there is anything behind the things science observes—something of a different kind—this is not a scientific question. If there is "Something Behind," then either it will have to remain altogether unknown to men or else make itself known in some different way.
The statement that there is any such thing, and the statement that there is no such thing, are neither of them statements that science can make. And real scientists do not usually make them. It is usually the journalists and popular novelists who have picked up a few odds and ends of half-baked science from textbooks who go in for them. After all, it is really a matter of common sense. Supposing science ever became complete so that it knew every single thing in the whole universe. Is it not plain that the questions, "Why is there a universe?" "Why does it go on as it does?" "Has it any meaning?" would remain just as they were?"
An amazing fact is, the discoveries of science rather points to the existence of 'something' or 'someone' beyond the universe.
In a post by Dr. Frank Turek, he remarked...
"If current Big Bang cosmology is correct (and the evidence is very good that it is) then the entire space-time universe exploded into being out of nothing. Therefore, the Cause of the universe would seem to have these attributes:
· spaceless because it created space
· timeless because it created time
· immaterial because it created matter
· powerful because it created out of nothing
· intelligent because the creation event and the universe was precisely designed
· personal because it made a choice to convert a state of nothing into something (impersonal forces don’t make choices).
These are the same attributes of the God of the Bible (which is one reason I believe in a the God of the Bible and not a god of mythology like Zeus)... The implication of the creation of the universe out of nothing is that there is a Cause outside the universe with the attributes listed above. That’s not speculation, but following the evidence where it leads.
From the various facts at our disposal, one can boldly say, "Science IS NOT against Religion!"
Mich-Shaker ©
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