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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Do Science And Religion Conflict? It's All In How You "See" It

Do Science And Religion Conflict? It's All In How You "See" It

Arguing against those who said that natural philosophy was contrary to the Christian faith, (Aquinas) writes in his treatise "Faith, Reason and Theology that "even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught to us by faith cannot be contrary to what we are endowed with by nature. One or the other would have to be false, and since we have both of them from God, he would be the cause of our error, which is impossible." 
"Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World" by John Freely

St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law and The Common Good
Aquinas Quotations
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/st-thomas-aquinas-natural-law-and.html

Thomas Aquinas Quotes On Reason

http://quotesgram.com/thomas-aquinas-quotes-on-reason/




Pro-Science Pontiff: Pope Francis On Climate Change, Evolution And The Big Bang

Aquinas also says that faith takes up where sense-based science leaves off.

"Tantum Ergo"
Conservatives Trust In Science (From The Latin Word For "Knowledge") Hits All-Time Low
U.S. News & World Report
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/conservatives-trust-in-science-hits-all.html

Alan: I increasingly value artistic creativity as an excellent, if not preeminent, way of "working well." 
Those who merely labor without artistic aspiration may be the meanest of men.

Creativity: The Psychology Of Discovery/Invention," By Founder Of "Flow Psychology"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/creativity-psychology-of-discovery-and.html

"Inside The Box: We Say We Like Creativity But We Really Don't"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/we-say-we-like-creativity-but-we-really.html







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