I say unequivocally yes. I don’t know of any faith that teaches its followers to remain illiterate, or ignorant, or not learn. Ignorant ex employee I’m still stuck hearing everything about because everyone else in the unit became her friend says you can’t accept God if you accept science.
So, if you teach science, or work in research, or are a Jewish, Muslim, other professional whose work involves a good science education, you have to abandon your faith? That even sounds stupid. Many Jews, represented quite a bit in professions like dentistry and medicine, would most likely disagree.
It’s also an insult against persons of faith, many of whom are learned people outside the faith and in disciplines other than religion. Personally, I don’t care if someone doesn’t believe in God. I don’t want to see either side needlessly insulted, those who don’t believe or those who do.
Do you guys believe a worshipper must abandon science? Or someone whose passion is in the sciences can’t explore faith? Discuss.
It is as easy to believe in both God/faith and science as it is to believe in both math and English. Science explores the physical world. Faith is an exploration of the philosophical world.
Sure. If people believe in a Giant Invisible Man In The Sky, then they’ll believe anything.
Essentially believing in this kind of stuff covers their asses because most people can’t accept death otherwise. They compartmentalize using the concept of ‘faith’. That argument would NEVER fly in science, but then they might not be walking on clouds after they die.
I think you’re quoting atheist talking points that don’t really make sense.
What is easier to accept: death = nothingness or death could equal an eternity in a burning hell?
God made this incredibly complex universe, and our inexplicable minds.
He gave us these big brains, it would violate the Protestant Work Ethic not to use them.
I’ll have to let Canada’s Professor Emeritus Keith Moore know that.
He was invited by a committee at the KSA’s King Abdulaziz University to compare his knowledge of human embryology vs what’s revealed in the Qu’ran about it. He found the two matched.
How about various Jewish professionals—physicians, dentists, teachers—who have a good science education? Better let them know that, too.