Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Science has done a lot of work in disproving gods, but people then changed gods. Like, in ancient Greece, when someone would explain some natural phenomenon as natural and without any need for divine intervention, they would be sentenced to the crime of impiety.

And many Greek philosophers were accused of impiety. One such guy was Anaxagoras who claimed that the Sun was a fiery rock and not some guy driving his golden carriage across the sky. Because of that, he was sentenced to death for the crime of impiety. But he also explained the cause of the Moon and solar eclipses, which gave Greeks an advantage in battles because they were free to fight instead of refusing to fight because gods were sending an omen.

And that's probably why the Hellenistic religion was declining - because more and more of its aspects were debunked.

And then came Christianity which also persecuted people who debunked its aspects, but it met the same faith when Newton discovered that the universe works on its own merit. But people (that is the intellectuals) became deists - meaning that they, again, changed the god.

And that is why we still see the old-times Christians who are trying to ignore science by creating private Christian schools where they omit certain branches of science, and want to abolish the Department of Education.

Actually, Newton believed that God ran the universe, down to the smallest detail: 

"So then gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the Divine Power it could never put them into such a circulating motion, as they have about the sun".

In fact, a large part of everything Newton wrote was on the subject of theology, not science.  He wasn’t trying to eliminate God from science, but trying to show how God make things work.

Boru