Literature is littered with scientific conjectures relevant to the era. Our pop culture is an oscillation of biochemical tautologies and common sense redundancies. Impacts on society, from Star Trek to the Bible, remain just that, impacts. They reflect our ignorance, but more pivotalling, reverberate our drive to further advance our collective knowledge of the universe and what composes it. This onward quest, whose goal seems at times precluded by the goal itself, entices everyone, whether they are destined to be the next Stephen Hawking or Stephen King.
Probably the most infamous of all, the Bible plays a major role in the advancements of science. It, as any supreme being, acts as an impetus for discovery one era and limpens the search. We all know the story of Galileo and heliocentricism.
Isaac Newton believed that God wrote two books: the Bible, a book that taught men morals, and the book of nature, one that mankind was tasked with translating. In the former, Creation can be seen as a metaphor for the broad scope of chemistry. (a) This comparison between void to the whole of the universe and complex made from the foundation of simple atoms is not as sound. Atoms are as not simple or as fundamental or as comprehendible as alluded. Firstly atoms are not the basis of matter. It is the smallest particle of an element can get without losing its properties. They are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons, which are then composed of quarks. The electrons surround the nucleus in a type of cloud in which they orbit in orbitals and humanity is limited in knowledge by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.
Another controversial topic against literatures many creation stories is the story of chemical evolution and the need for sel...
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In the eyes of both the novice and the adept, the future is bereft of any limit. The heavens above hold more than fixed stars. They sanction plasars, black holes, Star Trek style worm holes, hypernovas, and probably most importantly, the opportunity for life to flourish. Here on Earth, the future is burgeoning in “what if’s” and “why not’s.” In the movie, Back to the Future Part II, the writers proposes an alternate outlook on the year 2015, just one more orbit around the sun than Earth has under its belt currently. In the eyes of that particular film’s projected perspective, we will have hover cars, holograms, and one size fit all clothes next year. Surely a societies of comsumers everywhere will be excited. However, a selected few of these hopeful fallacies are not only aspirable feats, but perhaps also, (conditionally) plausible.
Chapter 3, The Bible, Creation, and Science by Robert Branson, PhD presented some interesting aspects of biblical interpretations relative to science. “With the rapid changes and developments that all areas of modern science produce, it is a general belief that if an informed person is made to choose between science or the Bible, science will be chosen.” (loc 647 Kindle, Branson) Dr. Branson tries and explain the three positions people take with biblical studies. The three positions examined by Dr. Branson are 1. Concordance, 2. Young-Earth Creati...
... effect all humanity, and therefore, need to not think on an individual level. J. Michael Bishop states that "The price of science seems large but to reject science is to deny future."(261).
Sire, James W. The universe next door: a basic worldview catalog. 3rd ed. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 1997.
For over a hundred years now a battle has been raging over the origin of the Universe and man. Soldiers of Science have drawn the battle lines with each side using various scientific and non - scientific theories as their weapons.
An underlying theme present throughout the series is the possibility that our existence is not the only one. According to current theories in physics, it is entirely possible that our universe is just one of many universes f...
Evolutionists – as well as atheists – state that despite the enormous scientific and technological progress, despite all ultra-sensitive observation systems, such as orbital telescopes, there are sti...
a greater comprehension that cosmology provides support for a divine being, and also realize that theology manages to have a great influence on new scientific developments. As Albert Einstein once said, “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.”
Dr. Michael Shermer is a Professor, Founder of skeptic magazine, and a distinguished and brilliant American science writer to say the least. In His book The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People he sets out to embark on the daunting task of convincing and informing the reader on sciences’ ability to drives the expansion of humanity and the growth of the moral sphere. Although such a broad and general topic could be hard to explain, Shermer does so in a way that is concise, easy to understand, and refreshing for the reader. This novel is riddled with scientific facts, data, and pictures to back up shermers claims about the history of science, humanity and how the two interact with one another.
In the past centuries scientific innovations have occupied people’s mind. People have been looking for answers about their existence with the help of science and the scientific method. But nothing has changed with people’s culture or behavior. However, something happened two thousand years ago that influenced and changed how some people perceive the world and self existence. It was the beginning of Christianity.
'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light…'(Gen 1:1.5) '…then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. '(Gen 2:7) This part from the bible is a typical example of what people used to believe before scientists came and gave logical explanations to the questions of mankind.It is possible, of course, to define a non-supernatural "religious" worldview that is not in conflict with science. But in all of its traditional forms, the supernatural religious worldview makes the assumption that the universe and its inhabitants have been designed and created by "forces" or beings which transcend the material world. The material world is postulated to reflect a mysterious plan originating in these forces or beings, a plan which is knowable by humans only to the extent that it has been revealed to an exclusive few. Criticising or questioning any part of this plan is strongly discouraged, especially where it touches on questions of morals or ethics. Science, on the other hand, assumes that there are no transcendent, immaterial forces and that all forces which do exist within the universe behave in an ultimately objective or random fashion. The nature of these forces, and all other scientific knowledge, is revealed only through human effort in a dynamic process of inquiry. The universe as a whole is assumed to be neutral to human concerns and to be open to any and all questions, even those concerning human ethical relationships. Such a universe does not come to us with easy answers. We must come to it and be prepared to work hard. According to Thomas W. Clark science and religion are in a battle from the day that scientists got in the fields of the theologises
Stoeger, William R., S.J. "Scientific Accounts of Ultimate Catastrophes in Our Life-Bearing Universe." In The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology. Polkinghorne, John and Welker, Michael, ed. 2000. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press.
Up until the Enlightenment, mankind lived under the notion that religion, moreover intelligent design, was most likely the only explanation for the existence of life. However, people’s faith in the church’s ideals and teachings began to wither with the emergence of scientific ideas that were daringly presented to the world by great minds including Galileo and Darwin. The actuality that there was more to how and why we exist, besides just having an all-powerful creator, began to interest the curious minds in society. Thus, science began to emerge as an alternative and/or supplement to religion for some. Science provided a more analytical view of the world we see while religion was based more upon human tradition/faith and the more metaphysical world we don’t necessarily see. Today science may come across as having more solid evidence and grounding than religion because of scientific data that provides a seemingly more detailed overview of life’s complexity. “Einstein once said that the only incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible” (Polkinghorne, 62). Yet, we can still use theories and ideas from both, similar to Ian Barbour’s Dialouge and Integration models, to help us formulate an even more thorough concept of the universe using a human and religious perspective in addition to scientific data.
The universe, it's vastness, how it was created, and why we are a part of it amazes and astounds many people who are constantly searching for answers. Others believe they have the answers and try to persuade people to understand their view. Others don't even think about it at all.
Since the dawn of intelligent man, humanity has speculated about the origins of the universe.
...n will look upon this star as their fatherland; its progress will be their ambition; the gratitude of others their reward. These bodies which now we: wear belong to the lower animals; our minds have already outgrown them; already we look upon them with contempt. A time will come when Science will transform them by means which we cannot conjecture, and which, even if explained to us, we could not now under stand, just as the savage cannot understand electricity, magnetism, steam. Disease will be extirpated; the causes of decay will be removed; immortality will be invented. And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.