Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.
Tag: science art perspective significance trivia pursuit triviality
Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles.
These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.
Tag: science christianity
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
Rodney StarkTag: science christianity
Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science.
Rodney StarkTag: science christianity
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.
Phillip E. JohnsonTag: science language naturalism modernity naturalism-as-science presuppositions theism
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.
William Lawrence BraggTag: science writing happy learn misunderstanding aesthetically satisfying undergraduates
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
Frank ZappaTag: humor science christianity religion liberal progressive fundamentalism homosexuality conservative democrat republican
Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.
Richard DiazTag: science information common-sense diaz
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas AquinasPhysics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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