Christianity Promotes Science not Prevents it!!

An Answer to those who perpetuate the lie that religion and in particular, Christianity, are anti science.

Ace I will not answer such silliness except to say, read your history and realize that learning was carried over  from Greek and Romans by the Christian monasteries, to include languages and mathematics. geology, archeology,botany, astronomy, etc.  Second, Almost all major Universities in Europe, Asia, Africa, USA, indeed the world were founded by devout Christians, many of them Priests, Pastors or Evangelists. Third, the great scientists of the early discoveries were Christian monks, Pastors or Scholars to include Gregor Mendel the father of modern botany and plant genetics, Newton, the father of modern physics, Kepler and myriad others.  The great hospitals and institutions of charity were founded by Christians to include the more secular ones such as the Red Cross, Boy and Girl scouts.  The great abolitionists were Christians, as well as the Woman suffrage leaders.  Note that the Civil rights movement was led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and the Reverend Dr. Ralph Abernathy, and the Rev. Fathers Berrigan were stanch anti-war protesters.  So, Ace, please read your history, get enlightened and realize that you are merely repeating parrot like the mantra of ignorant anti religion and anti Christian bigots and those who promote anti religion intolerance.

New Science Discovery

Wonderful discovery.  Whenever we can advance our knowledge it is good.  Interesting that the newest discoveries can change long held truth to a newer and sometimes completely different truth. In human history we allowed for God as the “rational/faith” response to the unknown.  That is still a good idea.  Not in order to stop investigation but to act as the bridge between what we have discovered and what we have not yet discovered.  The idea of God is an idea of rationality against irrationality.  The idea of God points to purpose and order in the presence of what seems chaotic and beyond reason.  I especially like the idea that the more we know the more we know that we do not know.  And in reading Donald Rumsfeld’s book, I like his idea about “…not knowing what we do not know.”  Sounds counterinuitive, but if we cannot even conceive of something, then we cannot name it, and if we cannot put a “thing” into some symbolic form, (like language) then we do not know what “it” “is” that we do not know.  All of this is premised on the idea that there even is an “it” which “is”.  All of this can meaningfully be attributed to the workings of the God whom we know and whom we know that we do not know.  And Yes, this is not goobly gook talk.  It is philosophical and even theological reflection on the wonderful new discovery of our scientists.  Hooray.  I love it.