[Phys-L] Re: god friendly science

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

Hmmm...Christians are adjured to show their good works to the light, though
this assuredly is not the route to salvation. Moslems are adjured to pray
towards Mecca, several times daily, as facilitating their salvation.
  Jews celebrate festivals. Many do not hold out a hope for an after-life.
  If continual personal contact does  not reveal glimpses into ones
spiritual orientation, he may well be considered
non-religious.

Brian W

At 11:58 PM 5/24/2005, John Clement, you wrote:
> Well now how does he know?  Since people do not put religion on their vitae,
> or science articles, or abstracts, how does he know their religion?  He
> would only know if they were visibly active in church affairs, or told him.
> I generally do not have any knowledge of other colleagues religion or lack
> of it because I have never asked, and they have not volunteered that
> information.  Incidentally in the South in the 50s Catholics (outside
> Louisiana) would be likely to keep their religious affiliation to themselves
> for fear of hate groups like the KKK.
>
> There was an article about 20 years ago by the Vatican's astronomer in which
> he explains evolution, and states that there is no conflict between the
> Roman church and either cosmology or evolution.  I think that you will find
> that all of the mainline churches, RC, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian,
> Lutheran (non Missouri Synod), and even some Baptist churches have made
> peace with science, and also take a non literal view of the non historical
> parts of the bible (Genesis to after the flood).  However within each of
> these churches there are groups which may take a more literal view.  Unlike
> the first 5 churches mentioned Baptists are very congregational with weak
> centralized authority and the theology actually can vary from one church to
> the next.  Traditional New England churches shared this trait, and the
> Unitarian church is an example of this.
>
> This information can be useful when discussing evolution of cosmology with
> students.  If the student indicates that they belong to any of the mainline
> churches, you can point to the fact that their church does not take a
> literal view of the entire bible.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > A note about the computability of Science and Catholicism.  During the
> > fifties the Physical Science Chair (geologist and prominent Unitarian)
> > at UCSB told me he knew of no Catholic Geologists, but one, a very good
> > seismologist.  Is this true now?
> >
> > bc
> >
> > cut


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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