Christian Science

Throughout history, especially the history of science, the relationship between science and religion has been predominantly conflicting. Their desire for seeking and providing answers to the unknown naturally associates their purpose. Science and religion may explore and investigate similar topics regarding life’s unexplained answers, but through very different approaches and methods. Science, focused solely on the psychical or natural world, pursues and collects answers through a systematic,…

Science fair experiments: a common project assigned to middle school students, allowing them to apply the scientific method to answer a specific question. In 8th grade, we were told to get into groups and choose a topic to research. I decided to analyze computer operating systems and determine which version performed faster; my group members approved of the idea. One of my partners, Christian, had multiple laptops that he had planned to use as test subjects for the experiments, however I…

faith and people who believe the truth comes from science have been butting heads ever since someone dared to question the divine. The relationship between the two belief systems has been problematic since the beginning. The only reason for the conflict is a lack of understanding of what is the truth. What people fail to understand is that it is possible for faith and modern science to co-exist and explain how and why we are here. Faith and modern science have been opposing forces from the very…

In modern society, science, logic, and reason live side-by-side with religious faith. People today have come to terms with scientific facts and what their religion tells them. But was the divide between scientific thinking and blind faith always so clear? Thousands of years ago, the darkness of the Middle Ages in Europe gave light to an age of knowledge and enlightenment, when faith took the backseat to scientific and logical thinking. This new age didn’t just take place immediately, however.…

use of song, dance, and psychedelic drugs. For the primitive man, the sacred was real, and his participation in it offered meaning to his life. The advent of Christianity in the West represented a shift away from faith and towards belief. Within Christian dogma, the sacred was experienced through heaven rather than through divine manifestations in nature, and the polytheism of many gods combined into one supreme God. Fundamentally, the sacred retained its…

should a scientist research and share scientific information or leave it alone. For years in the past humans used the gods/God to explain all the natural events that happened in the world. In Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s essay he shows the contrast between science and knowledge and using the gods/God to explain scientific feats. Tyson claims that scientists must choose because knowledge cannot work with the act of referring to a deity as an explanation for the acts in the world. Tyson builds his…

for us and his background. Antoine was born in Paris, France. He was born On August 26, 1743. His mom died when Antoine was 5 sadly. His dad was a lawyer and Antoine wanted to follow in his dad’s footsteps. When he decided not to, he found that science was more interesting. When he got older, he got a wife named Marie-Anne-Paulze-Lavoisier. Antoine had many great accomplishments in his lifetime. Most of these accomplishments were in Paris, France. All of his discoveries affected the world.…

This time was not without its advances and changes in morals and ethics of science though. The changing times and sciences as well as the pursuit of knowledge and the unknown changed many churches minds on the matter and people began to accept acts such as anatomy of the human body and were more open for exploration on how it works, and made way for many new experiments to be done. These changes prompted a more lax look at the experiments and theories of the scientists and while many acts were…

known as a “way of knowing. (Scott 2009:3).” Going back to the religious standpoint, religious knowledge is one way of knowing that does not involve science. Scott uses one example for Christian beliefs based on the New Testament of the Bible. The authors of the books of the New Testament were all inspired by God which would cause those of Christian belief to follow what the authors wrote as truth. (Scott…

In the 16th and 17th centuries, scientists began to question the long held theories of science. This new period, known as The Scientific Revolution, brought controversial opinions of political and social views. Scientists flourished with a variety of concepts, complex as the Three Laws of Motion, or as simple as the Heliocentric Model. Although we still follow these theories and support the studies of science today, life wasn’t that easy back then. Scientists were affected by many aspects of…