Can You Believe in God and Science? - Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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For some, science and religion occupy separate, irreconcilable spheres. For others, they share a common goal: to explore big questions, discover meaning, and synthesize knowledge.
In this captivating audio course, Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, creator and host of the hit PBS series Closer to Truth, interrogates the relationship between religion and science with 13 experts across fields. While some consider religion irrelevant to science, many find fulfillment in harmonizing their work with their beliefs.
Francis Collins is one such example. Once an atheist, Collins - the Director of the NIH - is now a believer. Best known for spearheading the Human Genome Project, he is adamant that reason is not the pure province of the scientific mind.
Kuhn also interviews Ian Barbour, a scholar on the relationship between science and religion, who is credited with inaugurating the contemporary debate between the two fields through his book Issues in Science and Religion (1966).
In a conversation with Robert John Russell, founder and director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Kuhn asks how Russell reconciles his roles as a physicist and an ordained minister.
As you listen to a fascinating array of perspectives, you’ll understand Kuhn’s claim that “the nexus of science and theology is the place where we explore human reality.”
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This post has 21 comments with rating of 5/5
April 22nd, 2021
Definitely looks interesting.
But IMO, the real question is whether you can consistently grant the premises necessary for science without admitting the existence of God.
April 22nd, 2021
is god a real thing?
April 22nd, 2021
No
April 23rd, 2021
Wow is this really still an issue? Don’t people that believe in god just believe he created science?
April 23rd, 2021
Why did Jesus waste all that time in Jerusalem when he should have been terraforming Venus?
April 23rd, 2021
that would make me a believer
April 23rd, 2021
if god compress the moon’s upper mantle by 1000_km to give the moon an Earth like surface gravity i would believe.
April 23rd, 2021
A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
(Albert Einstein, “Religion and Science”, New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930)
April 23rd, 2021
‘Seasy. Theism provides the grounding for objective morality & free will. Sans which, you have a deterministic framework, and consequentialist ethics, at best, w’out objective ethical content. Which is, as we know, morally unsustainable. We’d be no better than Moss-Man: a gentleman, I don’t need to remind you, comprised entirely of moss.
How otherwise can materialists condemn evil, or speak of justice, morality, ethics - or any other non-material, abstract metaphysical? If materialism is all?
Plainly: “The scientific outlook has taught us that some parts of our subjective experience are products of our biological makeup and have no objective counterpart in the world. The qualitative difference between red and green, the tastiness of fruit and foulness of carrion, the scariness of heights and prettiness of flowers are design features of our common nervous system, and if our species had evolved in a different ecosystem or if we were missing a few genes, our reactions could go the other way. Now, if the distinction between right and wrong is also a product of brain wiring, why should we believe it is any more real than the distinction between red and green? And if it is just a collective hallucination, how could we argue that evils like genocide and slavery are wrong for everyone, rather than just distasteful to us?” - Steven Pinker.
April 23rd, 2021
@Ill, ole pill - quotation is a fraught business. Relatively speaking.
“My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God — he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
One for internet comment sections: “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
And probably my favourite: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
April 23rd, 2021
Well, while ol’ Einstein put it better, I’ve thought along those lines most of my adulthood. The only spirits I have some respect contain alcohol.
April 23rd, 2021
Just the one quote? Not all of them - or none of them? Do you appreciate how materialism falls apart as soon as it’s proposed? It’s a fascinating area of thought.
April 23rd, 2021
“Plodding along, and trying to outguess the future, is the way of the humankind.”
And now you can quote me!
April 23rd, 2021
I don’t think anyone ‘believes in’ science. You understand it. Or you don’t.
While no one understands religion. You believe in it. Or not.
Of course, only the one requires smarts.
April 23rd, 2021
…or you understand neither, and believe in scientism. And you can also believe that a false dichotomy represents a valid, logical argument.
None of which require any smarts.
April 23rd, 2021
Science isn’t a belief system, it’s a way of doing things using mostly empiric experiments. I think it involves some mathematics, too. The core is that you don’t “believe” in anything that you can’t repeat. And it feeds on doubt, not belief.
April 23rd, 2021
Yeah, ill, that’s right. And you begin with a question, then develop it into a hypothesis.
There’s no conflict betw the two domains here, of course, but ideologues wish to contrive one. Popper is superb on this area.
There is a conflict, however, betw religion & scientism - which is an entirely erroneous ideology, and that’s the reason I had to bring old prydeful to order! I’m never sure if the person genuinely doesn’t understand the difference, or if they’re “honestly” trolling.
April 23rd, 2021
“Are you there, Margaret? It’s me, God. Sorry, not answering you until now, but I’ve been busy golfing with Satan.”
April 23rd, 2021
Now you’ve gone into the rough. Trump, if he hit the ball into the water, would routinely produce another ball, maintaining that it had returned due to “wave action.” And George Washington apparently “couldn’t tell a lie.”
April 24th, 2021
One should not need to “believe in” anything, either it is or it isn’t.
May 13th, 2021
..trust that the book is a fraction as illuminating as the commenters…
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