science and religion. Flashcards
miracles
d.Hume says that they go against the natural order of creation and the laws of physics he takes an Newtonian approach laws of physics are unchanging.
said that miracles are often proposed by barbarous people.
-spinoza says that miracles also challenge the laws of nature. and they cant be violated as the means that there is no basis for science.
-flew says more time and effort should be taken finding out what has happened not assume it was god or a miraculous event.
what is David Humes quote on miracles happening.
'’there is more evidence that they are wrong than there is evidence to support their claim’’
train trolley explination.
child stuck on a high level crossing bridge and their Is a train coming towards it but for some reason the trains emergency breaks are accidentally deployed the mother thinks that it Is a miracle but it was discovered that it was due to material reasons.
shows debate in realist vs anti realist views.
Big Bang theory.
-was put forward by a Roman Catholic philosopher
-put forward by cosmologists.
-georges Lemaitre
-before the Big Bang there was nothing suggests that there had to be a cause got biblical popularity as it supported the idea ex nihlio (out of nothing)
what theory challenged the big bang theory.
steady state theory.
what is the steady state theory.
idea that the Universe is just expanding in and out the universe had no beginning or end and is just a static state.
(Big Bang became more dominant)
religion vs education.
John scopes trial.
teaching anything other than the bibles genesis story was not allowed so John scopes a teacher taught out of a textbook with the theory of evolution in it then encourages students to testify against him so that he could take it to court.
separation vs church and state.
was fined 100 dollars. but was alter acquitted on technical faults.
divisions in the church and state in education who ruled it.
intelligent design
goes agains the idea of evolution
the world is too fine tuned to be the product of blind evolution or pure chance.
dakins on trial book Behe says things like blood clots when we get cuts cant be pure chance and the eye is too irreducible complex to be accident had to have a creator we are able to see this with bacterium fagellum.
criticisms to intelligent design.
based on theistic principles means that it could be accused of making presumptions.
there is no peer reviewed works or writings on this means the discovery institute says that there is but many suggest that those writings push theistic views.
creationism (genesis story literally)
Philo of Alexandria says that they need to be taken not literally.
the discovery of fossils challenge the age of the earth according to the bible count as evidence against god.
however it’s not the traditional view to take the genesis story literally but analogically.
Henri blocker says that why should we tie god to one method of creation god could be responsible for natural selection ect.
theory of evolution against god.
made of small variations overtime increased number of species over generations cant increase whats beyond available to them leads to a struggle to survive can be seen in wild species.
evidence against theory of evolution.
relies on probabilistic language.
definition of fittest is disputed physicaly or could there be a mental status of the smartest.
what is noma
non overlapping magesteria says that science and religion are asking different questions so that they cant be intruding on eachother as they answer different questions.
strengths of scientific materialism.
able to repeat over and over again.
scientific laws are violated by miracles shown in spinozas argument.
using realistic methords to be able to teat miracles.
peer reviewed
limits of scientific materialism.
cant investigates miracles beyond the laws on nature.
science cant prove that miracles didnt occur.
beginning of the earth is singular and unrepeatable.
misses the point of miracles there is the devine nature of god to show his power and love.
