One of the most common trends circulating in many religious communities is the spread of misinformation about the scientific literature by religious organizations. This trend has caused the religious community to harbor enmity against the scientific literature and their community. To resolve the misunderstanding both religious and scientific communities have gathered together to communicate their views on beliefs, morality, the beginning of the universe, how all life was created, Holy Scriptures, and the scientific literature. Debates are a common practice used to establish a dialog between two opposing viewpoints. Each side is represented by an individual of popularity or credential. Some of the more noticeable individuals are authors of well-known books who rationalize or attempt to rationalize a specific viewpoint of the topic. Under specified rules and time limit each side is given a chance to present their views to the audience arguing for or against the chosen topic. Some debates use a …show more content…
Though some religious scientist may not believe in the Bible literally this doesn’t imply they can’t view it symbolically or metaphorically, which I think is a more common perspective of many nondenominational or spiritualists. I think in a sense this helps the religious community to actually question the intention of their holy book creating a much deeper and significant understanding of what the stories might have been emphasizing. Plus, I think it’s this kind of mentality that will open up the religious community to accepting theological scholarly literature which break down the holy literature and unravel the puzzles behind it history, intention, and interpretation completely untouched by irrational misinterpret which has kept many denominations and nondenominational divided by what is to be taken literal or
In his letter answering sixth-grade student Phyllis Wright’s question of whether scientists pray, Albert Einstein employs purposeful logos and diction to successfully distinguish the religiosity of true scientists from that others. Einstein logically builds his distinction by asserting that “a research scientist will hardly believe ... [in] prayer” and subsequently revealing that experienced scientists nevertheless develop a religious devotion towards “a spirit vastly superior to that of man.” This explicit presentation of the similarities and differences makes it clear how the scientists’ concepts of piety differ from conventional beliefs. Henceforth, Wright would conceptualize Einstein’s beliefs as a variation from the beliefs she is familiar
Those who criticize Harris believe that forcing people to choose whether they believe in faith or science will only further divide the scientific and religious communities. Harris acknowledges this argument, writing “that if we oblige people to choose between reason and faith, they will choose faith and cease to support scientific research.” (Harris). This is potentially dangerous to the future of science. Polarization could drive funding and support away from the scientific community and limit further advancement.
Have you considered additional ancillary texts to help you? An additional ancillary source is “Evolution and Religion Can Coexist.” This article explains that religion and science are able to balance each other in principles or theories. The author states, “Religion is about ethics, or what you should do, while science is about what’s true.
However, in order to progress it is important to consider these and other questions. Just accepting things for the way they are both restricts and frees the mind. Conversely, to search for answers and believing them wholeheartedly is dangerous. With the rejection of religion, people have turned to science. This conversation appears to be good in many ways, however, the science has simply created another belief system - one just as intolerant.
He points out that the Bible cannot be taken literally because sometimes it can be interpreted in different ways. The Bible was written for the common people and illiterate to understand, and to prove his point he mentions that the Bible gives God a body like ours while theologies believe God has no such features. He moves to his main point about who has the authority to determine what is true and untrue. He argues that what is scientifically proven will to understand the Bible true meaning.
In 1936, Phyllis Wright, a sixth-grader that hoped to understand what scientist prayed about, sent a letter to Albert Einstein, who responded to her inquiry with a well-thought-out letter. Within the reply, Einstein used appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos; clever manipulation of the relationship between subject, speaker, and audience; and a well-articulated purpose, all of which made Einstein’s reply rhetorically effective. Perhaps the most important observation that can be made about rhetoric in Einstein’s response is the clear imbalance of the rhetorical triangle, which describes the relationship between subject, audience, and speaker. The subject addressed within Einstein’s letter was prayer and how scientists use it, and this subject clearly
He discussed Douglas Park’s definition of audience that includes those who hear or read a discourse, those who are a part of an external rhetorical situation, those who the writer thinks of, and the audience suggested by the discourse. Grant-Davie says that reading and writing can be a negotiation between the readers and writers. Constraints as factors in a situation that can affect the achievement of the rhetorical objectives. Grant-Davie defined constraints as all factors in a situation aside from the rhetor and audience that can lead the audience to consider the discourse differently and influence the rhetors response. He also said that a rhetorical situation ends when the discourse has been
The authors wrote about the significant part of the story and the most theologically significant. Plus, if you looked at the text in a scientific way it could vary a lot from person to person based on their scientific sophistication. I agree that we cannot look at part of the bible in a scientific way. For example, the author tells the story about how Adam was taken half of, in order to create Eve.
While the science versus faith argument has existed for centuries, only rarely do they ever work hand in hand. Richard Selzer, author of The Surgeon as Priest, breaks the barrier and explores the contrast between the two ideas, likening them, while breaking his piece into five distinct parts to help himself and the reader analyze it. Selzer uses process analysis, transition between first, second, and third person perspective, a plethora of literary techniques, as well as evocative syntax and diction to explore the conflict between religious anomalies and scientific conviction to propose his purpose, discussing in an almost interrogative fashion - when does zeal become iniquity? To start off his essay, Selzer begins talking directly to the
These two books are meant to answer different questions and it isn’t fair to impose and scientific question on the Bible because the Bible was not meant to answer the mechanical functions of the natural world but the Bible gives a purpose for life and talks about the cause of life.
How successfully do you think your team performed during the debate? What sort of problems did you encounter and how could you avoid these in the future? Though a little bit nervous we successfully based our answers on our definitions, most time we followed our logical structure that “science arouses doubts then doubts lead to the demise of the religion”. However, sometimes we tended to follow the other group’s logic and fail to point out the unrelated questions at the first time but tried to answer them.
Even though we are all religious in our own ways, I would like to discuss today why science alone can’t keep us going. That religion affects us more than we realize, and that it is more powerful than science. However,
From the periods 1500 to 1700, The Scientific Revolution led to heretical ideas against the church. According to the bible, man was considered the pinnacle of creation as well as other creations such as the sun been considered the center of the universe. Copernicus aroused with the creation of the heliocentric theory, stating that the sun was not the center of the universe and Galileo “agreed with his teaching enabling him to understand nature’s phenomena that according to hypothesis, it remained inexplicable.” In addition, this theory challenged the church’s authority and beliefs. Throughout that time, because church was really strict, it decided to go against the theory, because it was contrary to what the church stands for, as well as questioning God.
Nicalea Greenlee Astronomy, 7 December 15, 2017 Science vs. Religion Science and religion has always been an argument for years. I think science and religion are both very important to the way of life and how we see the entire universe. But I believe religion is more believable than science. For science can be proven wrong at any given time and religion can never be stated untrue. Such as the story of creation, evolution, practices and beliefs can contradict these theories.
In a survey of 275 faculty members from 21 different research universities in the United States, 15% believed Science and Religion were always in conflict, 15% said the two were never in conflict, and 70% said they are sometimes in conflict. The survey concluded that the scientist who believed Science and Religion were always in conflict is simply because they have a narrow view on Religion, the identity it with conservative strains of American Evangelical Christianity. The majority of people who said science and religion are never on conflict is because God created science and they both have completely different views of viewing reality. They also found in the study scientists who are very spiritual and religious are less likely to see religion and science as a conflict. This proves the two can co-exist because scientist view on the subject is adamtely explained to the point where hundred of scientists reach out to share their political views with the survey.