RE: Science and Religion cannot overlap.
August 8, 2014 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2014 at 5:30 pm by Mudhammam.)
(August 8, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Michael Wrote: Well, I'm a scientist and a faithful Christian. I happily live in both worlds. But I don't share your view that we must approach everything scientifically. I love my science, but I see it as a tool for a particular job. I don't bssr my marriage on science. I don't base my music on science. I don't judge the books I enjoy reading by science. I don't derive my moral code from science. And I don't see a problem with any of that. The problem, to me, comes when one sees science as the only game in town. I know science pretty well, and I know where is useful and I know where it has little use. And I don't think that trying to derive everything from science is a position you can hold consistently in life.
Unless your claim is that evoking the supernatural is required to explain your taste in music, your love for your wife, or your sense of morality (a claim you would not be able to justify) than you admit that in principle a scientific explanation is available, regardless of whether or not you care to understand it (a claim that can be justified).
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza