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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Michelle Malkin" |
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28 Nov 2005 06:02:31 AM |
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Scientists Say Evolution and Religion Can Co-Exist |
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is
blind." -Albert Einstein
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Joel Primack has a long and distinguished career as an astrophysicist. A
University of California, Santa Cruz, professor, he co-developed the cold
dark matter theory that seeks to explain the formation and structure of the
universe.
He also believes in God.
That may strike some people as peculiar. After all, in some corners popular
belief renders science and religion incompatible.
Yet scientists may be just as likely to believe in God as other people,
according to surveys. Some of history's greatest scientific minds, including
Albert Einstein, were convinced there is intelligent life behind the
universe. Today many scientists say there is no conflict between their faith
and their work.
"In the last few years astronomy has come together so that we're now able to
tell a coherent story" of how the universe began, Primack said. "This story
does not contradict God, but instead enlarges [the idea of] God."
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And so begins an article in National Geographic News (October 18, 2004;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1018_041018_science_religion.html).
This flies in the face of the very charter of newsgroups such as
news:alt.religion.atheism because it shows that thinking, reasoning and
absolutely brilliant scientific minds recognize that God and science can
coexist. Indeed it was God who invented science and designed the human brain
that made our understanding of science possible.
The impeccable logic in the above article, especially the part of the
article about how true scientific evolution AND religion can coexist
logically, deserves your consideration in light of the major denial of God's
existence that is the foundation of atheism.
Can we discuss this intelligently? Will some predictably lash out in anger
and rage again, begging me to leave the poor atheists alone and stop
interjecting other world views into theirs? Will you dismiss what National
Geographic has to say and the facts in this article because your beliefs are
polarized and your faith in atheism is unwavering?
I hope not.
Sending you all my best wishes!
Not if you hope to convert we atheists to your mythology.
That is simply rudeness on your part. We atheists ( some
of whom are scientists) all came to our conclusions about
religion individually. So did the theist scientists. Besides,
scientists aren't always right about everything just because
they are scientists. Their specialty isn't theology, after all;
it's science.
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| User: "Conspiracy of Doves" |
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| Title: Re: Scientists Say Evolution and Religion Can Co-Exist |
28 Nov 2005 08:12:04 AM |
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Evolution can co-exist with religion. There is no problem with someone
who believes in a god also accepting that evolution is true. Evolution
can not co-exist with a literal interpretion of the bible.
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Scientists Say Evolution and Religion Can Co-Exist |
28 Nov 2005 08:14:35 AM |
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On 28 Nov 2005 06:12:04 -0800, "Conspiracy of Doves"
<mark_dp73@yahoo.com> wrote:
Evolution can co-exist with religion. There is no problem with someone
who believes in a god also accepting that evolution is true. Evolution
can not co-exist with a literal interpretion of the bible.
However any compromise has to be by religion. Evolution is is part of
reality and you can't compromise that to fit religion.
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: Scientists Say Evolution and Religion Can Co-Exist |
28 Nov 2005 09:39:43 AM |
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Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On 28 Nov 2005 06:12:04 -0800, "Conspiracy of Doves"
<mark_dp73@yahoo.com> wrote:
Evolution can co-exist with religion. There is no problem with someone
who believes in a god also accepting that evolution is true. Evolution
can not co-exist with a literal interpretion of the bible.
However any compromise has to be by religion. Evolution is is part of
reality and you can't compromise that to fit religion.
yet this is what most religious folks who accept evolution actually
do....they figure there must be a god thingy that set it up or nudges
things along here and there. They don't grasp the power of natural
selection....
Jim
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| User: "Bill" |
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| Title: Re: Scientists Say Evolution and Religion Can Co-Exist |
28 Nov 2005 12:20:55 PM |
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Of course religion and Evolution can co-exist. Religions evolved just like
all the creatures that practice them!
"J Forbes" <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:1133192383.574270.132400@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On 28 Nov 2005 06:12:04 -0800, "Conspiracy of Doves"
<mark_dp73@yahoo.com> wrote:
Evolution can co-exist with religion. There is no problem with someone
who believes in a god also accepting that evolution is true. Evolution
can not co-exist with a literal interpretion of the bible.
However any compromise has to be by religion. Evolution is is part of
reality and you can't compromise that to fit religion.
yet this is what most religious folks who accept evolution actually
do....they figure there must be a god thingy that set it up or nudges
things along here and there. They don't grasp the power of natural
selection....
Jim
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| User: "Conspiracy of Doves" |
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| Title: Re: Scientists Say Evolution and Religion Can Co-Exist |
28 Nov 2005 11:26:48 AM |
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Yes, thank you. That is a very important point.
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