People Flashcards

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Fed into warfare model

Says that Science always wins over Religion

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Richard Dawkins

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  • Atheist
  • Warfare Model
  • Dysteleolgical
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Sir Francis Bacon

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•Founder of modern science in the early 17th century
•The two book model of Science and Religion
• The book of God’s work
(Non Verbal, studied by scientists)
• The book of God’s words
(verbal, studied by theologians)
•Induction

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Alvin Plantinga

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• A Christian
•4 F’s
(Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, Fertilizing)
•Said that if in a dysteleological world the brain should only be used for the 4 F’s so why should we trust it to make the decision of no God?
•Believes sin plays a role in the Epistemology

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Karl Marx

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“Religion is the opium of the people”

Religion is nothing but psychology, emotion & wish fulfilment, imagination i head of religious devotees

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Immanuel Kant

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•There is a human impulse for metaphysical thinking
•If religion= metaphysics and everyone has a metaphysics then everyone is religious
•Diest
•General Revelation
-Natural Revelation
-Moral Revelation

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Isaac Newton

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Wrote Principia Mathematica
•Accepts Teleology, theism, intelligent design and divine action
•Cosmological interventionism in operations (in fixing Mercury’s wobble- Newton’s Solar System Reformation Theory)
- God of the gaps= gap in knowledge
•Theory of Gravity and symbol of modern science

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Bertrand Russell

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  • Conflates Dystelogy metaphysics and science

* Depict the reign and attitude of scientism from 1900 - 1950

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John Polkinghorne

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  • Critical Realism
  • Proposes a middle ground to the extremes of scientism and anti realism
  • Anglican Priest
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Hermeneutical Gaps

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  1. Historical
  2. Cultural
  3. Linguistic
  4. Philosophical
  5. Scientific
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John Haught

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•Roman Catholic Theologian 
•Science  Religion Scholar 
•Limits Religion to Abrahamic Faiths (theists) 
1. Conflict 
2. Contrast 
3. Contact 
4. Confirmation
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Ian Barbour

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•Protest
•The Dean of the science-religion dialogue 
1. Conflict 
2. Independence
3. Dialogue 
4. Integration
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Carl Sagan

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  • An atheists astronomer who was on TV.

* He made a huge impact on the warfare model

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EO Wilson

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  • Father of sociobiology (Evolutionary psychology)
  • God exists only in the brain
  • Trapped in a deep ditch dichotomy
  • Recognizes that 95% of people believe in teleology
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Karl Barth

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  • Neo- orthodox Christian
  • Religion is based on the bible ONLY
  • Science has no value for religion
  • Rejects Natural revelation
  • Impossible for Science and Religion to conflict
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Rudolph Bultmann

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  • Father of 20th Century Liberal Christianity
  • Rejects divine action
  • DEMYTHOLOGIZATION
  • If the bible is interpreted properly there is no way for miracles
  • Impossible for Science and Religion to conflict
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Stephen Jay Gould

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  • Leading Evolutionary Biologist
  • Non Overlapping Magisteria
  • Religion is Moral and Values
  • Science is empirical universe
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Michael Behe

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•Biochemist 
•IRREDUCIBLY COMPLEXITY 
     Can't explain complexity of the  
      cell 
•Claims that god made the first cell in one fell swoop
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Antony Flew

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•An atheist but became a diest because of the complexity found in molecular biology

20
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Marxism

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Progressive force that pushes society forward
• teleological
•Non Ritualist Pagan