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grannymh
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Revelation, as it is used above, is miles away from the Catholic use of Divine Revelation. However, establishing a huddle could be viewed as being similar to a Catholic major ecumenical council.I think the main issue may be more about business as usual rather than deliberate opposition.
Wherever revelation appears to make a prediction about the natural world, and the prediction is brought into question by evidence, the issue is that nature can’t lie, and this leads to schism. Some will say that revelation must be reinterpreted on that point, others that it is plain wrong, others that the evidence must be reinterpreted, and so on. Everyone goes off into huddles.
Pardon me. But these examples are not Catholic doctrines. Maybe my thousand posts on that subject were missed.Examples include all the various views on cosmology (geocentrism etc.)
Divine Revelation does acknowledge that human beings exist with the goal of joy eternal in the presence of the Beatific Vision.and human origins (creationism etc.).
Pardon me. Interpretation of empirical evidence is not Divine Revelation as used by the Catholic Church.A more important example, because it affects real people now, is interpreting the empirical evidence on homosexuality - there have been a huge number of threads in the Social Justice forum with all manner of divisions.
The key is that the business of “science” is conducted properly and interpreted correctly. In general, “conducted properly” means that conclusions are warranted by the examined evidence which includes materials and methods. Given the nature of material/physical nature, often conclusions are probable. One needs to remember that probable conclusions, valuable in themselves, do not dogmatically rule out all possibilities.This is not to discuss those issues here, just to say that every so often science has and will act as a fragmentation grenade on one religion or another by simply going about its business.