Should science be secular?

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Faith will always triumph. While Faith leads us onward and upward into the Divine Light, deep down in the muck and mire Satan holds hands with the purveyors of humourless hateful atheism.
God Bless,
Colmcille1.🙂
ROTFL!!!

For a Christian you’re not very Christlike. I would suggest you re-read Matthew and refresh your memory of what Christ had to say of standing in judgement.

You do have one saving grace. You’re ill mannered.
 
Moonstruck

So if it was not chance, and was not design, and not by evolution, by what process did the first living cell come into being … that you dare not speak its name? 😃

Stop beating around the bush and name it! 😉

The frozen truth is that neither you nor any scientist has the foggiest notion of how the first living and replicating cell came to be. No doubt, however, you believe the holy grail of science will find the secret of all secrets in due course. And even if that secret never is discovered, your abiding faith that it will be will be as sure and predictable as the faith of any Christian that the universe exists for a purpose and is not the vacuous and meaningless entity you take it to be.

No wonder you and so many other atheists who visit this web site are so profoundly angry. I would be too if I thought my life was ultimately meaningless. 😦
 
I don’t think science should be secular.
Hi RoseRed2,
A word of advice. The atheists on this thread operate from a base line of NO RESPONSIBILITY to any faith or Church. Yet they think they can freely quote scripture!! They lack any insight and their “arguments” are so bloody-minded it borders on sheer lunacy. They do not like this being pointed out to them as it hurts the solitary thread of their being here on this site namely: bloody-minded arguments! They cannot distinguish between levels of “humour” and indeed one cannot grasp the concept at all.
On another thread one atheist wonders why there are so many Catholics on this website!
I would not dignify the bile that passes for comment from one but I will do my utmost to alert all to said bile.
This is all part of fighting Satan.
God Bless,
Colmcille1.🙂
 
Moonstruck

So if it was not chance, and was not design, and not by evolution, by what process did the first living cell come into being … that you dare not speak its name? 😃

Stop beating around the bush and name it! 😉

The frozen truth is that neither you nor any scientist has the foggiest notion of how the first living and replicating cell came to be. No doubt, however, you believe the holy grail of science will find the secret of all secrets in due course. And even if that secret never is discovered, your abiding faith that it will be will be as sure and predictable as the faith of any Christian that the universe exists for a purpose and is not the vacuous and meaningless entity you take it to be.

No wonder you and so many other atheists who visit this web site are so profoundly angry. I would be too if I thought my life was ultimately meaningless. 😦
Can I respond, Charlemagne, since you seem to lump me in here, too?
 
Hi RoseRed2,
A word of advice. The atheists on this thread operate from a base line of NO RESPONSIBILITY to any faith or Church. Yet they think they can freely quote scripture!! They lack any insight and their “arguments” are so bloody-minded it borders on sheer lunacy. They do not like this being pointed out to them as it hurts the solitary thread of their being here on this site namely: bloody-minded arguments! They cannot distinguish between levels of “humour” and indeed one cannot grasp the concept at all.
On another thread one atheist wonders why there are so many Catholics on this website!
I would not dignify the bile that passes for comment from one but I will do my utmost to alert all to said bile.
This is all part of fighting Satan.
God Bless,
Colmcille1.🙂
You seem to be about to burst a bloody blood vessel, mate.
 
Moonstruck

So if it was not chance, and was not design, and not by evolution, by what process did the first living cell come into being … that you dare not speak its name? 😃
We don’t know. The research is very young and speculative. I already posted the link to abiogenesis theories above in this thread. Did you look at it?
Stop beating around the bush and name it! 😉
“abiogenesis”
The frozen truth is that neither you nor any scientist has the foggiest notion of how the first living and replicating cell came to be
Of course. This is common knowledge. Why are you treating it like a “gotcha” moment?
. No doubt, however, you believe the holy grail of science will find the secret of all secrets in due course.
Maybe, maybe not. This likely occured 3 billion years ago. That is a far reach for full scientific accuracy of bio-development.
And even if that secret never is discovered, your abiding faith that it will be will be as sure and predictable as the faith of any Christian that the universe exists for a purpose and is not the vacuous and meaningless entity you take it to be.
That’s meaningless hyperbole. Who called it “vacuous” or “meaningless”? Stop attributing things to persons who have NOT stated them.

By the way, that life may not have had an original designer (surely YOU must also concede that it might not, the same way that I conceded that it might) does not in any way make it “purposeless.” “Purpose” is not ONLY attributed to a God or “designer’s” actions.
No wonder you and so many other atheists who visit this web site are so profoundly angry. I would be too if I thought my life was ultimately meaningless. 😦
If you are calling me angry, you are wrong. And I do NOT consider my life “meaningless,” nor do most atheists. That is an unfair and inaccurate description.
 
Moonstruck

So if it was not chance, and was not design, and not by evolution, by what process did the first living cell come into being … that you dare not speak its name? 😃

Stop beating around the bush and name it! 😉
The process is not a single process but a chain of processes and events. It doesn’t have a single word name. That’s the trouble with real things that aren’t the work of someone’s imagination. Real life is complicated. It doesn’t come in convenient little sound bite sized pieces
The frozen truth is that neither you nor any scientist has the foggiest notion of how the first living and replicating cell came to be.
Actually, biological scientists know pretty precisely how the first cell came to be. We’re hard at work on the experimental verification right now, and it will be proven, probably within my lifetime.

That’s the difference between people like you and people like I Carolus. Scientists don’t make claims to have proof positive until they can back it up with evidence. To say that scientists don’t have the foggiest notion how the first cell came to be is the kind of fraudulant falsehood that I’ve come to expect from you.
No wonder you and so many other atheists who visit this web site are so profoundly angry. I would be too if I thought my life was ultimately meaningless. 😦
You might be less angry if you actually thought at all…
 
Moonstruck

*That’s the difference between people like you and people like I Carolus. Scientists don’t make claims to have proof positive until they can back it up with evidence. To say that scientists don’t have the foggiest notion how the first cell came to be is the kind of fraudulant falsehood that I’ve come to expect from you.
*

You might be less angry if you actually thought at all…

This is what I mean … anger and arrogance.:rolleyes:

Your promise of an answer at some time in the indefinite future is touching. Too bad you don’t have the same undying faith in the answer to the purpose for why you even exist … to know, love, and serve God in this world, and be happy with Him forever in the next.

Secularism is no less a faith than Christianity … blind and trusting … one worships God, the other worships meaningless Matter.
 
Yes. Science is not just secular. Science is actually all about God’s creation. Without Him it would not be here.
That is fine and well, but God made things so that they work on their own without his intervention. If science was not secular we would probably just answer a lot of questions with “that is how God wanted it” or something like that without trying to get to the actual physical answer. Science should be secular because using God in science would just let us be lazy and would be the answer for anything we couldn’t figure out.
 
bingbang

*That is fine and well, but God made things so that they work on their own without his intervention. If science was not secular we would probably just answer a lot of questions with “that is how God wanted it” or something like that without trying to get to the actual physical answer. Science should be secular because using God in science would just let us be lazy and would be the answer for anything we couldn’t figure out. *

Can you give us an example of a scientist who was lazy because he used God to explain something that he couldn’t explain using science?

Were Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Einstein and others lazy scientists when they referred to God as an explanation for design in the universe?

Nicolaus Copernicus Heliocentric Theory of the Solar System

“The universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.”

Johannes Kepler Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motions

“[May] God who is most admirable in his works … deign to grant us the grace to bring to light and illuminate the profundity of his wisdom in the visible (and accordingly intelligible) creation of this world.”

Isaac Newton Laws of Thermodynamics, Optics, etc.

“This most beautiful system [the universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein Theories of Relativity

“I have never found a better expression than “religious” for this trust in the rational nature of reality and of its peculiar accessibility to the human mind. Where this trust is lacking science degenerates into an uninspired procedure. Let the devil care if the priests make capital out of this. There is no remedy for that.”

Max Planck Father of Quantum Physics

“There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.”

J.J. Thompson Discoverer of the Electron

“In the distance tower still higher peaks which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects and deepen the feeling whose truth is emphasized by every advance in science, that great are the works of the Lord.”

Werner Heisenberg Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

“In the course of my life I have been repeatedly compelled to ponder the relationship of these two regions of thought (science and religion), for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.”

Arthur Compton Compton Effect, Quantum Physicist

“For myself, faith begins with the realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence – an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered – ‘In the beginning God.’”

Max Born Quantum Physicist

“Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist must be rather silly.”
 
This is what I mean … anger and arrogance.:rolleyes:

Your promise of an answer at some time in the indefinite future is touching. Too bad you don’t have the same undying faith in the answer to the purpose for why you even exist … to know, love, and serve God in this world, and be happy with Him forever in the next.

Secularism is no less a faith than Christianity … blind and trusting … one worships God, the other worships meaningless Matter.
How on Earth does one worship matter? What a preposterous statement. What is it you think I do, sing hymns to it? Eat effigies of matter on Sunday morning?
 
Were Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Einstein and others lazy scientists when they referred to God as an explanation for design in the universe?
Actually yes they were. Using the God of the gaps.

Newton invented Principia. Differential and integral calculus that explained two body motions. He did this in a matter of a few weeks. When challenged to explain the stability of all the planetary motions, he invoked the God of the gaps and we had to wait for a hundred years for Laplace to solve that problem using maths that would have been Mickey Mouse stuff to Newton if he hadn’t just passed the buck to God.

Newton, when pushed beyond the limits of his knowledge invoked intelligent design. He never did any meaningful work again after that.
 
moonstruck

How on Earth does one worship matter? What a preposterous statement. What is it you think I do, sing hymns to it? Eat effigies of matter on Sunday morning?

Everything in your philosophy rests upon the supreme reality that there is no Spirit anywhere. Instead of your spirit soaring to God every Sunday morning, it is tied by slumber or by the New York Times to your bedpost! 😃

*Newton, when pushed beyond the limits of his knowledge invoked intelligent design. He never did any meaningful work again after that. *

Your cavalier dismissal of Newton’s genius fortunately will not hold. The Royal Society voted him the greatest genius of all time, surpassing even Einstein.

*And your assertion that scientist “don’t have the foggiest” how the first cells formed is either idiocy or outright mendacity. *

Yes, I thought that would get your goat. 😃 Every proposal for explaining abiogenesis is based on an imaginary model, not actual science. That is why ID is just as feasible as any other model, and more so than some because all the others rely on pure speculation, whereas ID relies on the pure logic of the plausible versus the virtually impossible. 👍
 
*What would a ‘religious’ science look like? *

Well, we know what an atheistic science looks like, don’t we? Pure hogwash.

Max Born Quantum Physicist
“Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist must be rather silly.”
 
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