There is never any conflict between true science and true religion. Truth cannot conflict with truth. Which is why the teaching of the one Church Jesus Christ founded, to which He promised the fullness of God's truth, never conflicts with natural truths revealed by science.
Naturalists believe the five senses and the temporal world is all that exists. The naturalist says "The water is boiling because the molecules are bouncing off one another: speeding up as a result of the heat."
But I say "The water is boiling because I want a cup of tea."
The greater truth - the more HUMAN truth - is the latter.
"The sunlight is refracting off the water droplets causing the spectrum of colors to hit the retina of the eye."
But I say: "I see a rainbow and I'm reminded of God's love for us."
Naturalists are annoying. If there is no ultimate truth, all you have left are opinions, and one opinion would be just as valid as the next.
But there IS ultimate truth.
That truth is a PERSON, not a religion.
"I am the truth." ~ Jesus
He did not say "I will tell you the truth..." or "I will show you a way to the truth." He said "I AM THE TRUTH."
Investigate this bold claim He made about Himself.
You're ALMOST close to a realization. Science seeks FACT, not truth. Philosophy is the search for truth. Religion does NOT seek either fact or truth. It seeks COMPLIANCE. Religion is about telling you that the story they made up is what you need to believe and you are not allowed to question it no matter what observations or logic is presented that refutes it.
I know some religious people who have squared the circle on this. It's called the God of the Gaps. The idea is that science tells us what it knows, and then religion assumes that God exists in the gaps between that knowledge...guiding the parts that science knows about in an 'invisible hand' sort of way like Adam Smith described for economics. In other words, GotG believers would acknowledge that we live on a sphere and that evolution happened, but that God very subtlely and indetectably guided evolution to produce us.
God of the Gaps is a massive improvement over biblical (or other holy book) literalism and mysticism. It still is fundamentally a misguided belief in magic, but it at least makes the fundamental admission that science is a better framework for discovering knowledge than religion.
Science is a tool to disclose the secret of the teaching of the only true religion of GOD , send down for all mankind.but the religions that being created by the human hands then would tend to contradict to science.
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There is never any conflict between true science and true religion. Truth cannot conflict with truth. Which is why the teaching of the one Church Jesus Christ founded, to which He promised the fullness of God's truth, never conflicts with natural truths revealed by science.
Catholic biologist
Science, as you call it, seeks funding and will follow any deceit or lie to obtain. And also seeks to throw off God.
How else can you explain their astronomical ungodliness?
Naturalists believe the five senses and the temporal world is all that exists. The naturalist says "The water is boiling because the molecules are bouncing off one another: speeding up as a result of the heat."
But I say "The water is boiling because I want a cup of tea."
The greater truth - the more HUMAN truth - is the latter.
"The sunlight is refracting off the water droplets causing the spectrum of colors to hit the retina of the eye."
But I say: "I see a rainbow and I'm reminded of God's love for us."
Naturalists are annoying. If there is no ultimate truth, all you have left are opinions, and one opinion would be just as valid as the next.
But there IS ultimate truth.
That truth is a PERSON, not a religion.
"I am the truth." ~ Jesus
He did not say "I will tell you the truth..." or "I will show you a way to the truth." He said "I AM THE TRUTH."
Investigate this bold claim He made about Himself.
Your life depends on it.
You're ALMOST close to a realization. Science seeks FACT, not truth. Philosophy is the search for truth. Religion does NOT seek either fact or truth. It seeks COMPLIANCE. Religion is about telling you that the story they made up is what you need to believe and you are not allowed to question it no matter what observations or logic is presented that refutes it.
I know some religious people who have squared the circle on this. It's called the God of the Gaps. The idea is that science tells us what it knows, and then religion assumes that God exists in the gaps between that knowledge...guiding the parts that science knows about in an 'invisible hand' sort of way like Adam Smith described for economics. In other words, GotG believers would acknowledge that we live on a sphere and that evolution happened, but that God very subtlely and indetectably guided evolution to produce us.
God of the Gaps is a massive improvement over biblical (or other holy book) literalism and mysticism. It still is fundamentally a misguided belief in magic, but it at least makes the fundamental admission that science is a better framework for discovering knowledge than religion.
You should know that true science, most agree with Us Christians on God's creation!
There is only one religion to follow, and it is the one that observes and puts into particular all the word of God described in the Holy Bible!
So, let's ask the question?
Why are there so many religions? Sigh!
Science can only answer HOW questions similarly religions or spiritual people can answer only WHY questions but not both. So truth exists in both.
Science without Religion or Spirituality is blind whereas RS without Science is ignorance
Science is a tool to disclose the secret of the teaching of the only true religion of GOD , send down for all mankind.but the religions that being created by the human hands then would tend to contradict to science.
Science and religion are mutual exclusive, permanently.
Science seeks facts. Religion makes their own "truths".
Religions do not seek truth, they run away from it.