"But things aren't so simple. Scattered among the world's top scientists are those who do believe in a conscious intention behind nature's processes. I think of people such as Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project, and Professor Bill Phillips, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997. The presence of such people poses awkward questions for the view that evolutionary theory and a sophisticated scientific brain lead inexorably towards atheism. There must be more to the so-called "science versus God" story than this.
Indeed, the fact that there are brilliant scientists who believe in God and brilliant scientists who don't makes it clear that the conflict is not a simplistic one between science and religion, but between opposing world views - naturalism and theism."
A great article highlighting the critical pivot around which this debate orbits.
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/why-not-every-scientist-worships-at-darwins-feet-20080818-3x8u.html?page=1
Indeed, the fact that there are brilliant scientists who believe in God and brilliant scientists who don't makes it clear that the conflict is not a simplistic one between science and religion, but between opposing world views - naturalism and theism."
A great article highlighting the critical pivot around which this debate orbits.
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/why-not-every-scientist-worships-at-darwins-feet-20080818-3x8u.html?page=1
Labels: athieism, darwin, debate, evolution, science, theism
posted by skippy longbeach at 6:15 PM
2 Comments:
Radhe Radhe
Will check it out later on.
I've read interviews between Francis Collins and the atheist Dawkins , it was vigorous and rigorous, to say the least.
I think in the latest statistics taken by Time magazine , it was found out that more and more people in the U. S., and maybe in all first world countries, do not believe in God anymore.
For us theists, all the more we should keep abreast of this kind of topic.
Malati dasi
Have just read the essay by the British John Lennox. And it is an article from an australian newspaper, I'm from a different state though.
I note this quote from the essay.
The late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that science simply cannot "adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature". For Gould, it was a mistake to apply scientific principles to questions of metaphysics.
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