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SSFT Marsch Test 1Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne quote - answer The 'unreasonable effectiveness of
mathematics' in uncovering the structure of the physical world (to use Eugene Wigner's
pregnant phrase) is a hint of the presence of the Creator, given to us creatures who are
made in the divine image. --Belief in God in an Age of Science
Science - answer “A branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of
demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified and more or less
colligated (joined together) by being brought under general laws, and which includes
trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain." -----Oxford
English Dictionary
Scientific Method - answer Hypothesis, Observation, Theory, Law
Hypothesis - answer weak and provisional - they must be testable by experiment
Theory - answer strong and fundamental, predictive
-Interpret data
-Suggest new avenues of research & new hypotheses
-They can be tested
-They can tie together (colligate) strands of evidence & ideas into unified,
comprehensive explanation
Law - answershort mathematical expression of a physical phenomenon
Good Theory - answerA good theory is Accurate, Consistent, has a wide scope, is
simple, and fruitful. Even as just a theory, they are strong and very difficult to disprove.
Empiricism - answer-Knowledge can be found by the senses & derived from
experience.
-Conflicting theories can be tested.
-Bottom-up view - you get laws and theories by experimental data.
Problems with Empiricism - answerScience is not purely bottom-up/inductive
Theology is not purely top-down/deductive
Lord Kelvin quote - answer"When you can measure what you are speaking about and
express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it,
when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and
unsatisfactory kind."
, Isaac Asimov quote - answerwhen scientists make a major discovery, they usually don't
say "eureka," but "that's a funny result"
Thomas Reid quote - answer"I am persuaded that the unjust live by faith as well as the
just"
Pseudoscience - answer"...lacks the key ingredients of evidence and having a test for
wrongness."
Warfare Model - answer-Science and Theology are completely against one another.
-Pioneered by Auguste Compte and historical relativism
-A.D. White and J.W. Draper claimed that Science and Faith conflict with each other
-this view is held widely by today's scientists
Cornelius van Til quote - answerI contend that you cannot argue against belief in Him
unless you first take Him for granted. Arguing God's existence, I hold, is like arguing
about air. You may affirm that air exists, and I that it does not. But as we debate the
point, we are both breathing air the whole time
Richard Dawkins quote - answerMore generally, it is completely unrealistic to claim, as
Gould and many others do, that religion keep itself away from science's turf, restricting
itself to morals and values. A universe with a supernatural presence would be a
fundamentally and qualitatively different kind of universe from one without. ... Religions
make existence claims and that means scientific claims
Non-Overlapping Magisteria (NOMA) Model - answerScience and religion have
similarities also, but they are basically different - principally because their domains are
different. The domain of science is natural order, the domain of religion is nature's
purpose...In this respect, science and religion are as different as apples and oranges:
They are two different yet complementary fields of human activity.
Stephen Jay Gould, Evolutionary Biologist on NOMA - answerThe net of science covers
the empirical universe: what is it made of (fact) and why does it work this way (theory).
The net of religion extends over questions of moral meaning and value. These two
magisteria do not overlap, nor do they encompass all inquiry (consider, for starters, the
magisterium of art and the meaning of beauty). To cite the arch cliches, we get the age
of rocks, and religion retains the rock of ages; we study how the heavens go, and they
determine how to go to heaven.
Paul G. Hewitt on NOMA - answerUnless one has a shallow understanding of either or
both, there is no contradiction in being religious and being scientific in one's thinking
Critiques of NOMA - answer-Either faith or science may suffer.
-Assumes science is neutral and independent from God.
-Is there no overlap?
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