> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 5:25 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Oh dear God no..... > > William Bowen wrote: > > Science is not faith-based. > And it is also NOT the antithesis of faith. Which is a big part I do > not understand about many such supporters. That Science and Faith is > an > Us versus Them winner take all battle. Science is not out to disprove > faith and faith does not require a rejection of science. But this is > from somebody who does not get faith so maybe I am just genetically > incapable of understanding why so many must make this a war.
There's serious debate about this. I lean ever farther to the opinion that science and faith cannot be reconciled - at least not completely. One or the other needs to be compromised: either faith needs to inhabit only the gaps in science or science needs to compromise it's methods to allow for the supernatural. I would say that an individual might be able to balance this, but as disciplines I'm not so sure. If you define you're your faith then you can make it fit and container I suppose. At a minimum I doubt that any religion, specifically any religion that makes naturalistic claims, can be reconciled. In this case science may not be out to disprove faith, but often does. How does science and faith reconcile when one claims with certainty that the Earth is millions of years old and the other says with certainty that the earth is not more than 6,000 years old? Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250055 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
