The common misconception that science and faith are in constant conflict, each hoping to disprove the other, is prevalent in the minds of so many people today that it has led to the belief that one must be wrong and the other right. Most people would be quick to side with science since they can see the visible signs that science bases its conclusions off of. However, science and faith are not in conflict and neither hopes to disprove the other. Rather science and Christian faith work together in unison to make sense of our complicated world. However, the people that believe in a science and faith war, believe that they have strong bases to structure their argument. They are often quick to broach the topic of the creation story asking how any
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Science is the result of reason based on observable fact, while theology and faith are pure guesswork and ignorance. In a 2010 article titled, “Science, Reason, and Catholic Faith”, Stephen M. Barr, a Catholic professor of physics at the University of Delaware, defends the Catholic Faith with regard to science and claims that despite the popular belief, science and faith do not contradict. In his article Barr addresses the fact that almost every Catholic is constantly bombarded with countless questions regarding science and its relationship to Catholic faith. Moreover, many of these Catholics don 't know the answer to these questions and this facilitates the growth of doubt in one 's …show more content…
Carroll, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology, also addresses the creation story in his article titled, “Science, Philosophy, and God”. Carroll emphasizes that the Biblical creation story is not meant to be taken as a “cosmological theory of the temporal origins of the universe” but rather as an, “ontological structure of the world and is the necessary precondition for the world and for science itself”(Carroll), a philosophical basis that is necessary for science to discover the actual beginning of the world. One must not reduce creation down to a simple product of God’s
Science is the result of reason based on observable fact, while theology and faith are pure guesswork and ignorance. In a 2010 article titled, “Science, Reason, and Catholic Faith”, Stephen M. Barr, a Catholic professor of physics at the University of Delaware, defends the Catholic Faith with regard to science and claims that despite the popular belief, science and faith do not contradict. In his article Barr addresses the fact that almost every Catholic is constantly bombarded with countless questions regarding science and its relationship to Catholic faith. Moreover, many of these Catholics don 't know the answer to these questions and this facilitates the growth of doubt in one 's …show more content…
Carroll, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology, also addresses the creation story in his article titled, “Science, Philosophy, and God”. Carroll emphasizes that the Biblical creation story is not meant to be taken as a “cosmological theory of the temporal origins of the universe” but rather as an, “ontological structure of the world and is the necessary precondition for the world and for science itself”(Carroll), a philosophical basis that is necessary for science to discover the actual beginning of the world. One must not reduce creation down to a simple product of God’s