Faith versus science

The history of the relationship between science and Faith is very varied, instructive, and often dramatic. There are several well-known “cases” (e.g., “Galileo case”), in which the words of a well-known phrase were filled that every time science touched Faith, it sparkled. This spark several times it grew into flames in which human victims also found themselves. I’m on. Are we looking at these events from the current standpoint? They’re done definitively in some cases, or persist to the present, whether are even new ones emerging? It turns out that there are all three questions positive answers.

The “Galileo case” has ended, and if we can use it, sports terminology ended in victory for secular science. The ecclesiastical hierarchy recognized that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not The Sun around the Earth. On the contrary, the victory of the theological view of ours the universe the case of “eternity or time constraint of the universe” has ended because science itself has proven that our universe is well-defined the beginning and will undoubtedly have the end. It can be stated that the controversy over the less publicized case ended amicably.

“Harmony versus chaos,” although even theology now admits that God has brought into our universe not only harmony but also the interested achievement of his goals, also arranged chaos in him. Although the case seems to be “evolutionism versus creationism, “it has already ended in victory at the scientific level of the first of these opinions. However, it is still possible to register as well the existence of a large group of opponents of this view. Still, there is a “struggle” between theism and atheism, which started from the same source – from the so-called Newtonian ism. Finally, we are currently witnessing the emergence of a new case, which may be brief to call the “case of life.” It is essentially a dispute between science and Faith when a person’s life actually begins.

The pragmatic outcome of this case is an opinion on whether it is possible or impossible to manipulate human so-called tribal cells. I mean all the above problems in this publication in more detail. However, there is another interesting question that we will try to search for an answer. It concerns the nature of the interrelationships between sciences and Faith and their development. How to characterize nature in general of these relationships? They are relationships expressing indifference, mutual competition, antagonism, or complementarity? We will see that in various historical stages, this has changed quite significantly. At the end of the last century, Faith believed intensively will not survive the year 2000 because science will solve all the mysteries by then interested in both sides. This did not happen and to the surprise of many in mutual relations appears on many issues’ convergence, in another complementarity. However, this does not mean that everything is already clear and that science and Faith have found their autonomous areas so that they are not mutually exclusive. Still, in their conclusions, on the contrary, they support it.

The relationship between science and Faith has been in the past very lively and interesting, as it is today and probably as well will continue to be so in the future, so it needs to be addressed and to get acquainted with objective and unbiased information about it. We see the main meaning and purposefulness of writing this publication in a name whose word “versus” evokes a certain clash of knowledge, science, and Faith. It would aim to replace that name entitled “Cooperation between science and faith.” That would be the fulfillment of the conviction of Pope John Paul IL, which in the encyclical “Fides et Ratio.” expressed in words:
Faith and reason are like two wings through which the human spirit elevates to a contemplation of the truth.”

This publication’s content is possible then briefly defines it as a treatise on the flapping of these wings.

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