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hominidai
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Joined: 16 May 2008
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| Can religion stand up to the progress of science? |
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This debate long predates Darwin, but the antireligion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience. Brain imaging illustrates--in color!--the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that could account for the ecstatic states of visionary saints or, some suggest, of Jesus. Like Freudianism before it, the field of evolutionary psychology generates theories of altruism and even of religion that do not include God. Something called the multiverse hypothesis in cosmology speculates that ours may be but one in a cascade of universes, suddenly bettering the odds that life could have cropped up here accidentally, without divine intervention. (If the probabilities were 1 in a billion, and you've got 300 billion universes, why not?)
Roman Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists followers of "scientism" or "evolutionism," since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview and a touchstone. It is not an epithet that fits everyone wielding a test tube. But a growing proportion of the profession is experiencing what one major researcher calls "unprecedented outrage" at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on Bush Administration science policy to the fanatic faith of the 9/11 terrorists to intelligent design's ongoing claims. Some are radicalized enough to publicly pick an ancient scab: the idea that science and religion, far from being complementary responses to the unknown, are at utter odds--or, as Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has written bluntly, "Religion and science will always clash." The market seems flooded with books by scientists describing a caged death match between science and God--with science winning, or at least chipping away at faith's underlying verities.
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urfi67
Senior Proud Pakistani
Joined: 25 Apr 2008
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well science is just the knowledge gained by humans over a period of time,,,can it supercede or even match the knowledge of THE CREATOR,,,not possible,,,it is as someday computers or other machines invented by humans overtake humans,,,the true religion Islam is not dependent on science to prove its superamacy rather its science which can benefit from the revelations made in THE HOLY QURAN and SUNNAH to explore further avenues
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| Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:07 pm |
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sarfarazlovesu
Senior Member Pakistani
Joined: 28 Feb 2008
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| Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:46 pm |
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urfi67
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thx
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| Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:55 pm |
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sarfarazlovesu
Senior Member Pakistani
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