📝 The world is NOT filled with religion vs science.
The majority of humans on this planet are busy, concerned, and working hard on so many more urgent matters.
The few who have enough leisure time and/or are obsessed with convincing or attacking or understanding the belief systems of other people engage in these science-religion debates.
Unfortunately in this open arena worlds most people have no understanding of science or religion, some making the absurd statements to the effect that Science is Western and Religion is Eastern.
By an large, ignorance, confused thinking, bigotry, emotion, and ethnic pride are what inspire people to form their opinions on controversial matters.
Science and religion are like that, as they represent two of the most evolutionarily fundamental human capacities: perceive (science) vs. deceive (religion). If you don’t like “deceive” then say “persuade to act.”
Covid-19 is a specific name that scientists have given to a virus of the Corona group—that began in 2019. It’s a nick-name of sorts. It tells people which Corona virus is causing the pandemic at this time. It will carry that name throughout history. Many types of Corona virus exist and some have caused influenza in the past.
This unique virus spreads fairly fast through moisture droplets through the air that all of us breathe out when talking or singing, and seems to live quite a long time on surfaces. It has a varied effect in the people who get it. So it is a real mystery bug. It can cause no symptoms or it can kill.
But those who have it will give the virus to others even if they are not sick themselves.
The Covid-19 is not called ‘the China virus’. Although it probably was first transmitted from a wild animal to a human in an open meat market in China, no one in that country invented it or released it to harm people. China does not have strict controls on open butchering that other countries have. They also have a population that lives close together. The extra lands are owned by the government.
Certain viruses can move from animals to people and from people to animals. The study of viruses is relatively new and researchers are learning a great deal about this ‘cross-over’ effect and how to protect ourselves, our pets and wild animals from being decimated by rapidly mutating viruses to make the virus infect a different species.
That’s where science comes in—with those who are educated at the PhD level about viruses and bacteria—they often have a certified Medical Degree with a specialty in virus treatments; they work in labs and experiment with many types of viruses—especially those that are dangerous to people and animals. Most viruses are harmless—they invade bacteria to sustain survival. But some are obviously dangerous and can mutate to be even more dangerous.
Hopefully science will soon provide us with an effective vaccine that will help us resist this particular virus. But each Corona virus is different—and if this virus mutates enough, it will be like a brand new disease.
"The common belief that the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility is not only historically inaccurate, but actually a caricature so grotesque that what needs to be explained is how it could possibly have achieved any degree of respectability"
There are contemporary controversies about evolution and creation, for example, which are thought to typify past relations between science and religion. This view is reinforced by popular accounts of such historical episodes as the Condemnation of Galileo, which saw the Catholic Church censure Galileo for teaching that the earth revolved around the sun.”
“In spite of this widespread view on the historical relations between science and religion, historians of science have long known that religious factors played a significantly positive role in the iemergence and persistence of modern science in the West. Not only were many of the key figures in the rise of science individuals with sincere religious commitments, but the new approaches to nature that they pioneered were underpinned in various ways by religious assumptions.”
“The idea, first proposed in the seventeenth century, that nature was governed by mathematical laws, was directly informed by theological considerations. The move towards offering mechanical explanations in physics also owed much to a particular religious perspective.”
“The adoption of more literal approaches to the interpretation of the bible, usually assumed to have been an impediment to science, also had an important, in indirect, role in these developments, promoting a non-symbolic and utilitarian understanding of the natural world which was conducive to the scientific approach.”
“Finally, religion also provided social sanctions for the pursuit of science, ensuring that it would become a permanent and central feature of the culture of the modern West.”
if you read Frances Bacon he implicitly makes this argument. His Christian beliefs inspired his passion and belief in science. In fact it was the deification of science by Bacon that launched its full historical power and gave it such a high regard these days.
Moreover, it was many of the early scientists who were likewise inspired by their faith to discover the laws of the Universe. It was God that made possible the stability and predictability which gave rise to a universe with order and scientific laws.
science points to a mind and something to give rise to complexity. Science further points toward order in the universe and a certain fine tuning (many agnostics and skeptics even point this out) and using the language often of the miraculous.
Simply because science has an issue with religion. Most of the scientific community does not believe in a God, they have to have absolute proof to make a decision and with God, you cannot be absolute with a scientific approach, you have to have faith and faith is not an absolute. I have never seen a religous scholar upset because a scientist does not believe in God but on the other hand, I have seen many scientists who are utterly exaperated because there is someone who has a belief system that is not centered in concrete proof.
"Science simply does not concern itself with religion. Religion cannot coexist with science and remain true to everything it supposedly is, as science continually, without even trying, refutes many of the things those religions are based on."
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