Christian Science

Mathematics is used in every aspect of life. In order to figure out time and space, width and depths in science math is needed. Mathematics is very relevant in order to function in this world. Every job requires it, the hours worked must be counted, pay must be multiplied by the hours worked. God provides many gifts to his people, such as wisdom and knowledge to name a few. Mathematics was created by the Lord and gifted to his people. Throughout education, it is taught that mathematics was…

When it comes to religion and politics, theories abound of secularisation and modernity, however, an absolute separation between the spheres of religion and politics has never been fully actualised and is not even possible according to the works of theorists such as Emile Durkheim, Robert Bellah, Edward Shils, and Emilio Gentile. The utopian secular modern society forecast by John Locke in his theories of the social contract and toleration ([1689], 2012) and asserted by the likes of Dietrich…

Religion in an Age of Science Morality: The Argument for Objective Moral Values Morality has been debated by scholars and philosophers for centuries, more specifically, morality’s origins have been disputed with only recent examinations bearing fruit. These debates explore the dichotomy between objective morality and moral relativism. These perspectives are controversial due to religious beliefs, but also to the understanding of human essence and purpose. This problem or debate will be analyzed…

The sky has always intrigued civilization. Every day the sun disappears and rises again, and we can depend on it to do so. During every cycle we can see the moon in full, but most importantly, we can see the stars. Several centuries ago mankind looked at those very same stars that we gaze at today. From earth we can only see a very small portion of the constellations around us, yet even in 3000 BC the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was discovering mountains of knowledge about the world…

Adam Christian Mr. Sidella English 4 May 8, 2018 Animal Rights: Animal Experimentation The government needs to establish and enforce stricter regulations for animal experimenting, or end it if possible, to protect these living beings from the torture and pain that is inflicted upon them. Animals are subject to treatments and experimented on “in the name of science.” However, a lot of these experiments are conducted under terrible conditions, and the results cannot even be applied to human…

Science, one of the most influential subject, has made enormous impacts in Europe during the seventeenth century. Before the seventeenth century, Europe has made minimal progress in science related advancement. On the other hand, the Asian countries have made progress in scientific advancements until the Europeans rise (Goldstone 136). For example, the Chinese developed gun powder, compass, and printing press (Strasser “The Scientific Revolution”). In the seventeenth century, the century which…

A notable number of modern thinkers specifically reprimanded the "human-centric" perspective that people are extraordinary, moreover, made in the image of God. In the nineteenth and mid twentieth century the popular German Darwinist Ernst Haeckel, for instance, impacted Christianity by advancing an "anthropocentric" and dualistic perspective of humanity. Today the acclaimed bioethicist Peter Singer, alongside the agnostic Darwinian scientist Richard Dawkins, contend that, in view of the…

The Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment are all intertwined. The Reformation was about religion, the Scientific Revolution was about proving that the Sun was the center of the Universe, and the Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement. The Reformation movement in the fifteen-hundreds changed the way Europeans looked at themselves. The Protestant Reformation was an important development that shifted the way marriage and family life was viewed. “Married life…

This paper will review and evaluate the article written by Carole M. Cusack, the professor at the University of Sydney. The article is called “Science Fiction as Scripture: Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land and the Church of All Worlds” and was published in journal Literature and Aesthetics in 2009. At that point professor Cusack was already a recognized expert on Religion Studies and Contemporary Religious Trends. She received her Bachelor degree in Religious Studies and English…

Cloning has been a very controversial topic since research first started looking into the possibilities it could bring to the medical field. With the many different beliefs of how life was created many people think it is wrong for a human to create life no matter what the situation is. Yet the scientific community has many different opinions on the entire matter of cloning because their research is created for the advancement of the greater good of the people. So exactly how ethical is the…