The Incompatible Truth
Science and Religion do not Mix!!!!
I am sorry, but That is the incompatible truth. Science and religion most certainly can mix. It is naturalism and reality I think you will find that are incompatible.
Until recently, the history of science has been moved, aroused and motivated, all by the thought that there is a God who created the universe, that this God is knowable, and thus his creation is knowable (Even more so, that we can know God more by understanding His creation more.)
It is not until the concoction and despotism of evolution came along that this ever present reality and impetus of science disappeared.
Blaise Pascal - Produced a treatise on Projective Geometry and did foundation work for probability theory, invented a mechanical calculator, founded principles for vacuums and air pressure.
"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
"It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace."
"Faith indeed tells us what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
Sir Francis Bacon - Father of the Scientific Method.
"There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which expresses His power."
"There never was found, in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect, or religion, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of the community, and increase private and particular good as the holy Christian faith. Hence, it clearly appear that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men, who gave the laws of nature to the creatures."
Galileo Galilee - Championed the Heliocentric theory of the universe, discovered sun spots, craters on the moon, four moons of Jupiter and was the first to use telescopes to study the stars. Famous for his fight with the Catholic Church.
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
"The reason produced for condemning the opinion that the earth moves and the sun stands still in many places in the Bible one may read that the sun moves and the earth stands still. Since the Bible cannot err; it follows as a necessary consequence that anyone takes a erroneous and heretical position who maintains that the sun is inherently motionless and the earth movable."
"I think in the first place that it is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth-whenever its true meaning is understood."
Isaac Newton - discovered the nature of gravity, Law's of Motion, developed much research on light and color and invented a reflective microscope.
"Since every particle of space is always, and every indivisible moment of duration is every where, certainly the Maker and Lord of all things cannot be never and no where....God is the same God, always and every where. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance.…It is allowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily; and by the same necessity he exists always and every where....And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearance of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy."
"The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
Johannes Kepler - Discovered planetary ellipses, how refraction works in optics, created glasses for far and near sightedness, first to derive logarithms from pure mathematics.
"O Thou Who dost by the light of nature promote in us the desire for the light of grace, that by its means Thou mayest transport us into the light of glory, I give thanks to Thee, O Lord Creator, Who hast delighted me with Thy makings and in the works of Thy hands have I exulted."
“Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity
to eternity.”
“Geometry is unique and eternal, a reflection from the mind of God. That mankind shares in it is because man is an image of God.”
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God
and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.”
Louis Pasteur - Developed the pasteurization of milk, created the Vaccines for Anthrax, Cholera, Rabies, and laid the cornerstones for the control and eradication of many other diseases. Discovered the reality of Germs and was also the first to reject the theory of spontaneous generation and evolution.
"Science brings man nearer to God."
"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. "
"Microscopic beings must come into the world from parents similar to themselves...There is something in the depths of our souls which tell us that the world may be more than a mere combination of events."
Max Planck - Father of modern physics, founder of quantum mechanics and the quantum theory, further developed the Theory of Relativity and the study of electromagnetic radiation.
"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. "
"Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view."
"It was not by any accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls."
"There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other."
Michael Faraday - revolutionary research on electricity and magnetics. He invented the first electric motor, the first generator and transformer.
"Speculations, man, I have none. I have certainties. I thank God that I don't rest my dying head upon speculations for "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day."
"Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope."
Nicholas Copernicus - First to build a comprehensive heliocentric theory.
"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
The universe was "built for us by the Best and Most Orderly Workman of all."
Albert Einstein (who believed in God, but did not know His character) - Among other feats, formulated the Theory of Relativity.
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
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And this is only a little excerpt from a small picking out of a large multitude of like-minded scientists.
Science and true faith (religion) are hand-maidens, not antonyms. If in reality there is no God, it would be evident. Design and purpose points in evidence towards a God. If in reality there is a God and He created all things, then as Max Planck said, they are not opponents of each other, but complementary to each other and as Blaise Pascal said, faith is a level above the sciences, not contrary to it. Do not blindly reject faith simply because it is proported to be anti-science. That is nonsense. Just hear the honest statement of a scientist who rejected God. Not His existence, but the consequences of His existence:
George Wald - Discovered the function of Vitamin A and the benefit it has on eyesight and made breakthroughs on how the eye works. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1967.
“There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God....there is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that leaves us with only one other possibility...that life came as a supernatural act of creation of God, but I can’t accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.”
Do you know your assumptions? For they know you.
Jared Williams
I am sorry, but That is the incompatible truth. Science and religion most certainly can mix. It is naturalism and reality I think you will find that are incompatible.
Until recently, the history of science has been moved, aroused and motivated, all by the thought that there is a God who created the universe, that this God is knowable, and thus his creation is knowable (Even more so, that we can know God more by understanding His creation more.)
It is not until the concoction and despotism of evolution came along that this ever present reality and impetus of science disappeared.
Blaise Pascal - Produced a treatise on Projective Geometry and did foundation work for probability theory, invented a mechanical calculator, founded principles for vacuums and air pressure.
"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
"It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace."
"Faith indeed tells us what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
Sir Francis Bacon - Father of the Scientific Method.
"There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which expresses His power."
"There never was found, in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect, or religion, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of the community, and increase private and particular good as the holy Christian faith. Hence, it clearly appear that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men, who gave the laws of nature to the creatures."
Galileo Galilee - Championed the Heliocentric theory of the universe, discovered sun spots, craters on the moon, four moons of Jupiter and was the first to use telescopes to study the stars. Famous for his fight with the Catholic Church.
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
"The reason produced for condemning the opinion that the earth moves and the sun stands still in many places in the Bible one may read that the sun moves and the earth stands still. Since the Bible cannot err; it follows as a necessary consequence that anyone takes a erroneous and heretical position who maintains that the sun is inherently motionless and the earth movable."
"I think in the first place that it is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth-whenever its true meaning is understood."
Isaac Newton - discovered the nature of gravity, Law's of Motion, developed much research on light and color and invented a reflective microscope.
"Since every particle of space is always, and every indivisible moment of duration is every where, certainly the Maker and Lord of all things cannot be never and no where....God is the same God, always and every where. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance.…It is allowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily; and by the same necessity he exists always and every where....And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearance of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy."
"The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
Johannes Kepler - Discovered planetary ellipses, how refraction works in optics, created glasses for far and near sightedness, first to derive logarithms from pure mathematics.
"O Thou Who dost by the light of nature promote in us the desire for the light of grace, that by its means Thou mayest transport us into the light of glory, I give thanks to Thee, O Lord Creator, Who hast delighted me with Thy makings and in the works of Thy hands have I exulted."
“Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity
to eternity.”
“Geometry is unique and eternal, a reflection from the mind of God. That mankind shares in it is because man is an image of God.”
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God
and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.”
Louis Pasteur - Developed the pasteurization of milk, created the Vaccines for Anthrax, Cholera, Rabies, and laid the cornerstones for the control and eradication of many other diseases. Discovered the reality of Germs and was also the first to reject the theory of spontaneous generation and evolution.
"Science brings man nearer to God."
"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. "
"Microscopic beings must come into the world from parents similar to themselves...There is something in the depths of our souls which tell us that the world may be more than a mere combination of events."
Max Planck - Father of modern physics, founder of quantum mechanics and the quantum theory, further developed the Theory of Relativity and the study of electromagnetic radiation.
"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. "
"Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view."
"It was not by any accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls."
"There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other."
Michael Faraday - revolutionary research on electricity and magnetics. He invented the first electric motor, the first generator and transformer.
"Speculations, man, I have none. I have certainties. I thank God that I don't rest my dying head upon speculations for "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day."
"Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope."
Nicholas Copernicus - First to build a comprehensive heliocentric theory.
"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
The universe was "built for us by the Best and Most Orderly Workman of all."
Albert Einstein (who believed in God, but did not know His character) - Among other feats, formulated the Theory of Relativity.
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
******************************
And this is only a little excerpt from a small picking out of a large multitude of like-minded scientists.
Science and true faith (religion) are hand-maidens, not antonyms. If in reality there is no God, it would be evident. Design and purpose points in evidence towards a God. If in reality there is a God and He created all things, then as Max Planck said, they are not opponents of each other, but complementary to each other and as Blaise Pascal said, faith is a level above the sciences, not contrary to it. Do not blindly reject faith simply because it is proported to be anti-science. That is nonsense. Just hear the honest statement of a scientist who rejected God. Not His existence, but the consequences of His existence:
George Wald - Discovered the function of Vitamin A and the benefit it has on eyesight and made breakthroughs on how the eye works. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1967.
“There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God....there is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that leaves us with only one other possibility...that life came as a supernatural act of creation of God, but I can’t accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.”
Do you know your assumptions? For they know you.
Jared Williams
