From USA Today-
Religion is very good at probing questions of meaning, while science excels at exploring the mechanics of the world we live in. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and a participant in the National Prayer Service after Barack Obama's inauguration, began her career as an oceanographer and studied the evolution of squid. She discovered that the Bible's creation stories have more to do with the meaning behind existence than with the particularities of how creation happened. She concludes that science and religion both give us knowledge, but that they are, as she puts it, "different kinds of knowing."
Science is truly godless in the sense that it does not assume that a divine being is at work in every animal, vegetable and mineral. Instead, it finds its answers through proofs based on observation and replication by multiple sources.
Darwin's theory of evolution forms the foundation of modern biology, and it has been proven true — most recently, in a 20-year experiment in which a researcher took a single bacterium and watched it reproduce and evolve for over 44,000 generations. Observation and replication give scientists answers to questions about the mechanics of life, but these approaches don't even attempt to explore the meaning of life.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/02/post-1.html
No comments:
Post a Comment