> Those who questioned creeds weakened the authority, and might diminish the incomes, of Churchmen ; moreover, they were thought to be undermining morality, since moral duties were deduced by Churchmen from creeds. Secular rulers, therefore, as well as Churchmen, felt that they had good reason to fear the revolutionary teaching of the men of science.
https://russell-j.com/beginner/RS1935_01-010.HTM
#ScienceAndReligion #BertrandRussel #ReligionAndScience

> A brief, and sufficiently accurate, description of the intellectual life of the European races during the succeeding two centuries and a quarter up to our own times is that they have been living upon the accumulated capital of ideas provided for them by the genius of the seventeenth century..
#ANWhitehead, #ScienceAndTheModernWorld
#Chomsky's #CartesianLinguistics stars with this quote..
and the #AlfredNorthWhitehead source is on-line! Includes #ReligionAndScience !
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611

Francis Pieper, "Christian Dogmatics" St Louis: Concordia, 1950 (orig German pub 1917).-->

"Men who presume to correct God's record of the creation through conclusions drawn from the present condition of the world are playing the role of scientific wiseacres, a procedure unworthy of Christians, as well as of men in general. The discord among professional geologists, for example, as to the age of the earth and of man is so great that only he will speak of 'assured results' of geology who has completely renounced the use of what reason is left to man after the Fall." (vol. 1, page 467)

Pieper was the core dogmatics textbook when I went to seminary in the late 1970s. It's still highly regarded in my church family of origin. [And this quote is, of course, both tangential to and symptomatic of the author's and church body's main focus on the Gospel.]

#dogmatics #ReligionAndScience #creationism

> ... there has always been a conflict between religion and science; and in the second place, both religion and science have always been in a state of continual development... Theology itself exhibits exactly the same character of gradual development, arising from an aspect of conflict between its own proper ideas.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1925/08/religion-and-science/304220/

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611

#AlfredNorthWhitehead #ReligionAndScience #ScienceAndTheModernWorld #Theology

Curious about what researchers think about the inclusion of what seems like two “extremist” options (“Totally Agree” and “Totally Disagree”) on its Likert Scale in this survey. #research #survey #Likert #ReligionAndScience https://www.sciencereligioncompass.org/

> The immediate reaction of human nature to the religious vision is #worship.. It is the one element in human experience which persistently shows an upward trend. It fades and then recurs.
#AlfredNorthWhitehead wrote or #religion in the book #ScienceAndTheModernWorld. The #ReligionAndScience chapter is in the collecion of essays #TowardLiberalEducation. The essay keeps coming to mind along with writings by #BertrandRussel (#Icarus and #Science as #PowerOver). They wrote #PrincipiaMathematica..

> Theology itself exhibits exactly the same character of gradual development, arising from an aspect of conflict between its own proper ideas. This fact is a commonplace to theologians, but is often obscured in the stress of controversy. I do not wish to overstate my case; so I will confine myself to #RomanCatholic writers... #Science is even more changeable than #theology...
#CatholicChurch #Catholic #Religion #ReligionAndScience

> In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory. This is one great reason for the utmost toleration of variety of opinion. Once and forever, this duty of toleration has been summed up in the words, ‘Let both grow together until the harvest.' The failure of #Christians.. --- [2] (1925)
https://zotum.net/channel/bsmall2?mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly96b3R1bS5uZXQvaXRlbS8yMzk3Yjk5My05NjEwLTQ0YzEtOWIzZi04OTZlZWIwODRmYWE
#AlfredNorthWhitehead #ReligionAndScience #LaudatoSi #PopeFrancis