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Science Without Religion Essay

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Albert Einstein)

If you had any doubt that the supernatural exist then all you have to do is look around you and you see the grisly evidence everywhere. The greatest invention of the devil, someone wisely asserted, is war and as I write that demon is having a jolly good time with the events going on in the Middle East and Africa. Conflicts that can lead to civil war are raging in Libya, in Somalia, in Ivory Coast among others and Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are counting their dead every day. But war is not confined to armed conflict where bodies are ripped apart and blood spilt; it is also raging in the realm of concepts and ideas and nowhere more so that between science …show more content…

They understood and accepted that science dealt with the material, natural world but was incapable of addressing, never mind resolving, spiritual matters. All of these Christian scientists found God and science compatible because they mostly practiced true science. Today the pendulum has shifted where scientists and those wannabe-great-scientists approach science wearing ideological blinkers and the scientific establishment forces scientists to conform to their ideological paradigm or else be branded unorthodox and be prevented from research funding and all that flows from …show more content…

As always the scientific community was abuzz with excitement about this latest "missing link" and proclaimed that it would prove once and for all that man came from the apes. Wikipedia on their website for Java Man described it like this, "Java Man (Homo erectus erectus) is the name given to fossils discovered in 1891 at Trinil - Ngawi Regency on the banks of the Solo River in East Java, Indonesia, one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus. Its discoverer, Eugène Dubois, gave it the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus, a name derived from Greek and Latin roots meaning upright

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