People Flashcards
Thomas Henry Huxley
Fed into warfare model
Says that Science always wins over Religion
Richard Dawkins
- Atheist
- Warfare Model
- Dysteleolgical
Sir Francis Bacon
•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
Alvin Plantinga
• 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
Karl Marx
“Religion is the opium of the people”
Religion is nothing but psychology, emotion & wish fulfilment, imagination i head of religious devotees
Immanuel Kant
•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
Isaac Newton
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
Bertrand Russell
- Conflates Dystelogy metaphysics and science
* Depict the reign and attitude of scientism from 1900 - 1950
John Polkinghorne
- Critical Realism
- Proposes a middle ground to the extremes of scientism and anti realism
- Anglican Priest
Hermeneutical Gaps
- Historical
- Cultural
- Linguistic
- Philosophical
- Scientific
John Haught
•Roman Catholic Theologian •Science Religion Scholar •Limits Religion to Abrahamic Faiths (theists) 1. Conflict 2. Contrast 3. Contact 4. Confirmation
Ian Barbour
•Protest •The Dean of the science-religion dialogue 1. Conflict 2. Independence 3. Dialogue 4. Integration
Carl Sagan
- An atheists astronomer who was on TV.
* He made a huge impact on the warfare model
EO Wilson
- 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
Karl Barth
- 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