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I suppose you know that religion is composed mainly of ceremonies, rituals, incantations, dogma and that sort of thing. It does not directly approach what science is doing. The interaction you are talking about is really in the area of ethics and morality which are not exclusively religious in nature. It is true that our use of science should take ethics into account.
The conflict between science and religion occurs because religions are dogmatic and science is exactly opposite. So far the required adjustments have always gone towards science because it deals in what may be verified.
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Originally posted by firstfloor View PostI suppose you know that religion is composed mainly of ceremonies, rituals, incantations, dogma and that sort of thing. It does not directly approach what science is doing. The interaction you are talking about is really in the area of ethics and morality which are not exclusively religious in nature. It is true that our use of science should take ethics into account.
The conflict between science and religion occurs because religions are dogmatic and science is exactly opposite. So far the required adjustments have always gone towards science because it deals in what may be verified.
This includes the writings of the Baha'i Faith, which should be understood in terms of describing the spiritual nature of our existence and human spiritual evolution and not necessarily descriptive of the physical nature of our existence.Last edited by shunyadragon; 07-25-2017, 08:45 PM.
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Originally posted by psstein View PostThere are precious few historians of science in academic postings who hold to the conflict thesis.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostThat depends on who you consider 'historians of science,' because the 'conflict thesis' requires a Theist perspective. I agree that by far the majority of 'historians of science' and scientists who are Theists do not believe in the 'conflict thesis,' and believe in Theistic Evolution, and other concepts that harmonize religion and science. The 'historians of science' and scientists who are non-Theist believe science is the standard, and are not concerned about, or reject the 'conflict thesis' and the desire to harmonize science and religion.
The vast majority of working historians of science (that is, people with PhDs in the subject who publish via recognized scholarly channels) hold to a complex relationship between the two.
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Originally posted by psstein View PostThat's not true either. The origins of the conflict thesis are not in atheistic/freethought of the late 19th/early 20th century, but in anti-Catholic thought of the 19th/20th century. Ronald Numbers and David Lindberg are/were both agnostics who did a lot to damage the conflict thesis in the late 20th century.
The vast majority of working historians of science (that is, people with PhDs in the subject who publish via recognized scholarly channels) hold to a complex relationship between the two.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostBeing agnostics, clearly justifies my original assertion that pressure from agnostics (basically philosophically naturalists) not significantly different than 19th and 20th century free thought atheist/free thought. They were well justified in anti-Roman Church views.
Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostDisagree without citations, this assertion has too high a fog index to be real.
Serious scholarship in the history of science has revealed so extraordinarily rich and complex a relationship between science and religion in the past that general theses are difficult to explain. The real lesson turns out to be the complexity... Conflicts allegedly between science and religion may turn out to be between rival scientific interests, or conversely between rival theological factions.
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