Introduction and Categories 1 Flashcards
What did Thomas Henry Huxley say?
Whenever science and religion are at odds, religion is always crushed.
Who was known as Darwin’s Bulldog?
Thomas Henry Huxley.
What percentage of US scientist believe in life after death and that God answers prayer?
~40.
Many US scientists believe in life after death and that God answers prayer. Is this proof of God’s existence?
No.
Who is Richard Dawkins?
Most important atheist in the world today.
Who is the most important atheist in the world today?
Richard Dawkins.
What would Richard Dawkins say about the relationship between science and religion?
Science and religion only converge when it suits, and to an honest judge, the marriage is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
Who came up with the Two Divine Books model?
Sir Francis Bacon.
What did Sir Francis Bacon come up with?
The Baconion Two Divine Books model.
What are the two books in the Two Divine Books Model?
The Book of God’s Words and the Book of God’s Works.
What does the Book of God’s Works represent?
Nature.
What does the Book of God’s Words represent?
The Bible.
Which of the Two Divine Books is verbal, and which is non-verbal?
The Book of God’s Works is non-verbal, while the Book of God’s words is verbal.
What is the warfare model between science and religion?
You are forced to choose between only two positions, either science or religion.
What are categories?
Foundational concepts that direct the way er look at and think about the world.
Categories can be compared to…
Glasses and software.
How can categories be compared to glasses and software?
Glasses give us a view of the world, and the software processes information through a program or a worldview.
What are the two popular categories?
Dichotomies and conflations.
What are dichotomies?
The division of an issue into only two simple positions.
What are conflations?
Careless collapsing and co-mingling of distinct ideas into one undifferentiated concept.
How can the conflict between science and religion be resolved?
Challenge popular categories and replace with professional categories.
What is the result of peace between science and religion?
Allows a wide spectrum of possible relationships between science and religion, and allows you to develop your worldview and personal beliefs.
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, ___ ___ pointless indifference.” -Richard Dawkins
Nothing but.
The Two Divine Books Model is supported by people such as…
Bacon, Galileo, and Pope JPII.
Which of the Two Divine Books offers general information, and which offers specific information?
God’s Works offers general information, while God’s Words offers specific information.
What are the six basic categories of divine action?
- Personal Interventionism.
- Personal Providentialism.
- Cosmological Interventionism in Origins.
- Cosmological Interventionism in Operations.
- Cosmological Providentialism in Origins.
- Cosmological Providentialism in Operations.
What is personal interventionism?
Miracles.
What is personal providentialism?
Subtle nudges in life.
What is cosmological interventionism in origins?
6 day creation.
What is cosmological interventionism in operations?
Retrograde planetary motion.
What is cosmological providentialism in origins?
God creating through evolution.
What is cosmological providentialism in operations?
God working in the universe subtly.
What is the proper ay to determine the category of divine action?
Determine context (people or origins/operations) and then determine mode (interventionism or providentialism).
Moses parts the Red Sea. What category of divine action would this fall under?
Personal interventionism.
Moses parts the Red Sea. This is categorized as personal interventionism, and not cosmological interventionism in operations. Why?
The personal overrides cosmological.
What is retrograde planetary motion?
Luther believed that since Mars appeared to move backwards as the Earth revolved around the Sun, God was intervening and that Mars literally made loops in the sky.
What is the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?
A principle that states that everyone makes a metaphysical jump as they apply beliefs to their science.
What are the two structural components in the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?
- Physics (science or facts).
2. Metaphysics (religion/philosophy or beliefs).
What is the relationship between the two structural components in the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?
“Upwards jump,” where we do science, then ask the big question of “what is the ultimate reality behind our discoveries in nature?”
What is the big question we ask in the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?
What is the ultimate reality behind our discoveries in nature?
Who makes an upward “metaphysical” jump?
Everyone.
What is teleology?
The ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have an ultimate plan and ultimate purpose.
What is dysteleology?
The ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have no ultimate plan and no ultimate purpose.
What is the ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have an ultimate plan and ultimate purpose?
Teleology.
What is the ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have no ultimate plan and no ultimate purpose?
Dysteleology.
“The complexity of living organisms is matched by the elegant efficiency of the ___ ___.” -Richard Dawkins
Apparent design.
