Models 1 and Models 2 Flashcards
Science religion scholarship is a discussion that has been going on for centuries, but has just recently come to light. True or false?
False, science religion scholarship is a young academic discipline.
What are John Haught’s 4 categories?
- Conflict.
- Contrast.
- Contact.
- Confirmation.
What does Haught’s Conflict category say?
You can’t be both religious and scientific. Scientific skeptics say that religion is an oppressor while science is the saviour, and believe that the Bible is full of contradictions. Biblical literalists believe that the words in the Bible are literally true, and are defenders of “True” science.
What is the problem with literalists?
Separate into simple dichotomies, use ad hominem arguments.
What does Haught’s Contrast category say?
There is no conflict between science and religion because they are different. It is like comparing apples to oranges. Completely compartmentalized.
In Haught’s Contrast category, science is conflated with both ___ and ___ belief.
Religious, secular.
What is Progressive Creation?
A theory that uses science to gain respectability for religion.
What is Day-Age Theory also known as?
Progressive Creation.
Why is using science to back up your religion problematic?
New discoveries can undermine your religion.
In Haught’s Contrast model, science answers the ___ questions of nature, while religion answers the ___ questions of belief.
How, why.
What is the main problem in science religion scholarship?
Conflation.
What is the first step in science religion scholarship?
Contrast.
What does Haught’s Contact category say?
It is a cautious move towards a more integrated picture of reality and a dialogue between science and religion.
Science broadens while religion deepens. Which one of Haught’s categories would this fit into?
Contact.
Theology should account for the best science out there today. Which one of Haught’s categories would this fit into?
Contact.
What does Haught’s Confirmation category say?
There is a intimate, reciprocal relationship between science and religion.
Which one of Haught’s categories would allow the metaphysics-physics principle to move backwards?
Confirmation.
___ (one of Haught’s categories) recognizes the fiduciary character of science.
Confirmation.
What is fiduciary?
To trust, to believe.
Who is Michael Ruse?
An atheist and famed philosopher of biology.
“Conflation…simply means the collapsing of distinct items in such a way that their differences are apparently lost…[It is] science and ___ into an undifferentiated smudge…careless commingling of science with ___…a tangled muddle.” -John Haught
Belief, Belief.
What is God-of-the-Gaps?
The belief that God intervenes at different times in the origins and/or the operations of the cosmos.
If gaps in nature are real, then the gaps should ___ with scientific research.
Widen.
If gaps in nature are real,the gaps should widen with scientific research. Is this the case in our world today?
No, gaps have narrowed and closed with scientific knowledge.
The fact that gaps have narrowed and closed with scientific research shows that…
The gaps are gaps in knowledge, not gaps in nature.