02-06-2022, 02:54 AM
A PHd physicist friend of mine once told me, "Science is my religion, but my faith is in God".
"God of the gaps" is a lazy way of saying that if a thing can't be proven, then God did it. I do not subscribe to a "God of the Gaps" theory, and think it's erroneous to even call it a theory, since it claims absence of evidence is somehow evidence that proves that "God did it": clearly not science. In contrast, the big bang theory of Georges Lemaitre (a Belgian priest) is a theory supported by evidence. Or as busker points out, a model "accepted as the best possible explanantion."
Big bang theory spooks some scientists, since it indicates a beginning, and can therefore imply a creation event. Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss wrote a book to counter this notion, "A Universe from Nothing". Yet, even the quantum fluctuations he descibes are a sub-atomic version of "something".
Many point to Newton as devoutly Christian, and indeed he produced many volumes of writing to bolster that claim. What they fail to point out is that his education at Cambridge in his day required certain religious beliefs. Newton did not believe in the Holy Trinity, which nearly cost him dearly. That said, he definitely believed in God, going so far as to say, "the more I study science, the more I believe in God."
To me, strident atheisim is as repugnant as strident evangelisim. Regarding God, I remain agnostic: "a-gnostic", as in not known (and probably not knowable).
All of that said, I remain fascinated by creation stories of the various faith traditions, and felt that is would be interesting to post a poem that would result in discussion. It did. And it has been interesting.
Intersting lists, that include many of the giants in science:
Christians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ch...technology
Atheists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_at...technology
"God of the gaps" is a lazy way of saying that if a thing can't be proven, then God did it. I do not subscribe to a "God of the Gaps" theory, and think it's erroneous to even call it a theory, since it claims absence of evidence is somehow evidence that proves that "God did it": clearly not science. In contrast, the big bang theory of Georges Lemaitre (a Belgian priest) is a theory supported by evidence. Or as busker points out, a model "accepted as the best possible explanantion."
Big bang theory spooks some scientists, since it indicates a beginning, and can therefore imply a creation event. Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss wrote a book to counter this notion, "A Universe from Nothing". Yet, even the quantum fluctuations he descibes are a sub-atomic version of "something".
Many point to Newton as devoutly Christian, and indeed he produced many volumes of writing to bolster that claim. What they fail to point out is that his education at Cambridge in his day required certain religious beliefs. Newton did not believe in the Holy Trinity, which nearly cost him dearly. That said, he definitely believed in God, going so far as to say, "the more I study science, the more I believe in God."
To me, strident atheisim is as repugnant as strident evangelisim. Regarding God, I remain agnostic: "a-gnostic", as in not known (and probably not knowable).
All of that said, I remain fascinated by creation stories of the various faith traditions, and felt that is would be interesting to post a poem that would result in discussion. It did. And it has been interesting.
Intersting lists, that include many of the giants in science:
Christians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ch...technology
Atheists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_at...technology