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Re: I have no doubt that Science and Spirit can share the same world.
Hello Ciel.
:) I strongly agree with your statement that "Science and Spirit can share the same world."
Kermit
posted by
Kermit1941
on September 5, 2011 at 8:41 AM
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Hello Bill.
I did not know this history, so looked it up using Google.
The conflict "came to a head" mid 1922, and continued well after 1930.
n this sermon, Fosdick presented the liberals in both the Presbyterian and Baptist denominations as sincere evangelical Christians who were struggling to reconcile new discoveries in history, science, and religion with the Christian faith. Fundamentalists, on the other hand, were cast as intolerant conservatives who refused to deal with these new discoveries and had arbitrarily drawn the line as to what was off limits in religious discussion. Many people, Fosdick argued, simply found it impossible to accept the virgin birth of Christ, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, or the literal second coming of Christ in the light of modern science. Given the different points of view within the church, only tolerance and liberty could allow for these different perspectives to co-exist in the church.
posted by
Kermit1941
on September 5, 2011 at 8:38 AM
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kermit1941
A The fundamentalist-modernist conflict in the 1930s (?) changed most denominations. So similarly to the question that the Moody Blues put forth, what’s real and what’s an illusion? Creationists use the same methods as evolutionists to show evidence that God created the earth, and the universe. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on September 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM
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Being the offspring of a scientist and a mystic,
who did not believe in children being religion-indoctrinated, I have been concerned with reconciling the scientifically demonstrated facts of the physical world with the faith-certain truths of spirituality. There is a correct place for everything, whether we can prove it or explain it or grasp it, or not. Everything fits somehow, somewhere.
After 50 years of seeking, I have no doubt that Science and Spirit can share the same world.
posted by
Ciel
on September 4, 2011 at 11:36 AM
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