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Religion and Reason can they Co-exist?
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Posted on: April 28, 2007 1:20 PM, by EJGili
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Can direct current electrical devices and alternating current electrical devices both exist? Sure. Are they compatible? No.
Steven Weinberg, Nobel prize-winning physicist, signatory of Project Steve, author of Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries will be giving the Messenger Lectures at Cornell University this week. The third lecture will be:
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology
Cornell University campus, Ithaca, New York
Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium
Open to the public
May 3, 2007, 7:30 PM
FREE!
The title is presumably a reference to a book by Cornell's first president, Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896)
Posted by: ivy privy | April 28, 2007 01:50 PM
Dastardly clever, these diabolical schemers. Here they accept a geological record, yet deny evolution.
Some of this will end up in papers written by students, and, unfortunately, too many teachers will fail to catch the mistakes and penalize students for them.
Posted by: Roy | April 28, 2007 05:28 PM
Incidentally, in answer to your title question, no.
Science is based on faith in evidence. Religion is based on faith in make-believe. The two should never be confused.
Posted by: Roy, again | April 28, 2007 05:30 PM
The hell of it is, while, generally, turnabout is fair play, it's not an option here.
We could create parodies of religious instruction, which maybe we could pass off as real, but we could only substitute different religious fiction for existing religious fictiong. Substituting fact for fiction would give us dead away.
Posted by: Roy, third time's a charm? | April 28, 2007 08:15 PM