Reconciling faith and science. [View all]

[guillaumeb]

In my view, it is quite easy to reconcile faith and science. Both involve a search for answers. Answers to different questions, to be sure, but a search all the same.

This fragment from a longer article describes on such method of reconciliation:

Q) What can you tell us about Lemaître’s approach to the intersection of science and faith, and what can we learn from it nearly a century later?

A) His conception of the relationship of science and faith was rather circumspect, carefully delineating their roles as ways of knowing. Science for him was the methodology for understanding the physical cosmos; revealed religion taught truths important for salvation. He was quite content to observe that the findings of science were in no way discordant with scriptural revelation, and vice versa, but neither should overreach. If Lemaître has a lesson for the science-faith discourse today, that would probably be it.

https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/faith-and-science-georges-lemaitre-11-questions-dr-karl-van-bibber

Many of us recognize this as the NOMA solution, the idea that the 2 fields are non-overlapping, each with its own methods.

I would also say, as my personal opinion, that each involves a search for truth, and in that search for truth, each can lead to the Creator.

I do not mean to imply that any, or all, or most scientists are inevitably led to an awareness of the Creator, but that the Creator, as the one who figuratively lit the spark of creation that was the Big Bang, inevitably values knowledge and any expression of the sentience that is referred to in the phrase from Genesis, 1:27, where it is said that the Creator "created mankind in the image and likeness".

So to my mind, seeking knowledge is growing closer to the Creator.