revtec wrote:
I'm all for sound science including CF research. I have spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars trying to coax some over unity performance out of a series of PAGD experiments, but only succeeded in finding some interesting anomalies.
I remain strongly convinced that true religion and true science are never in conflict.
Well Jeff, I agree. However I would phrase this a little differently. I would say that a true understanding of science is never in conflict with a true understanding of the spirit reality. The word "Religion" should not be used in this context because it is only an imperfect effort by man to understand the spirit reality, much like physics is an imperfect effort by man to understand the physical world. Both fields of study are fractured into warring factions because they are based on an imperfect understanding.
This raises an additional issue with respect to the literal interpretation of the Bible. Some people argue that the statements in the Bible are exactly true even though they were made by men writing in another language, who believed the earth was flat and was the center of the only universe, and who were talking to an entirely different culture. Nevertheless, God is supposed to have given these men superhuman and universal knowledge, evidence for which is not obvious in the text. What are scientists to make of statements given by religion based on such evidence? This is rather like assuming the works of Aristotle are literally true and should be the basis for science. How do Christian scientists deal with this problem?
Regards, Ed
Jeff
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Subject: Re: Evangelical environmentalists
<<<Nonbelievers and evolutionists believe that humans are a product of the
earth and that we owe the earth something as if it is "mother" earth and "mother" nature.>>>
I don't know many fundies in daily life. Maybe none. But I do know lots of
people who recognize the scientific validity of the mounds of evidence produce for natural selection. They are not animists or Wiccans. They do not worship "Mother Earth." I think you are (*surprise*) taking the Gaiai metaphor too literally. Kind of like the Bible.
Erik Baard
