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Are Science and Religion completely exclusive?

post #1 of 5
11/14/02 at 3:49am
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/convergence.html" target="_blank">PLEASE READ THIS RATHER LONG ARTICLE...AND COMMENT</a>

Fascinating stuff.
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post #2 of 5
11/14/02 at 11:37am
Leaping to the miraculous to explain concepts that humans have trouble understanding will always be with us.
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post #3 of 5
11/14/02 at 11:52am
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Jacob Singer:
Leaping to the miraculous to explain concepts that humans have trouble understanding will always be with us.
Is that a problem? And I guess you'd really have to define miraculous. Even if the Universe has naturalistic origins, is it not still miraculous in some sense?

As for the article it is most excellent. I believe that one can be a scientist and still be religious, as I know some religious scientists. I do not think that religion and science are incompatible. They are merely different ways of observing and understanding the univese. Religion is useful for defining some things and not others, science the same.
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post #4 of 5
11/14/02 at 6:18pm
I always sorta surmised that if Jesus "dumbed" down serious ethical and social conundrums for the common folk to get...that maybe the rest of the bible was written in accord. I dunno.
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post #5 of 5
11/14/02 at 9:07pm
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capteucalyptus (Scott Roche)
Even if the Universe has naturalistic origins, is it not still miraculous in some sense?

As for the article it is most excellent. I believe that one can be a scientist and still be religious, as I know some religious scientists. I do not think that religion and science are incompatible. They are merely different ways of observing and understanding the univese. Religion is useful for defining some things and not others, science the same.
While not a religious person myself, I think Scott makes some excellent points.

There is a limit to how much science can explain about the universe; as long as you keep pushing those limits, and keep an open mind, I see no problem with having the outlook that unexplainable/not yet explainable is due to a divine presence.

Some of the religious scientists I have seen quoted often find "God" even in the explicable things - many have looked at the complexity of life, and the workings of the Earth and what we know of the universe as evidence of an intelligence behind everything.
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