Christianity - God and the Scientists

Ours is said to be a Godless age, yet billions remain faithful to religions thousands of years old.

Scientist Colin Blakemore examines Christianity's relationship with science, arguing that science is the biggest challenge Christianity has ever faced.

For more than 1,500 years Christians saw the bible as the primary source of knowledge, but in the 17th century a new movement emerged that challenged the Christian view of the world, the Scientific Revolution. During the Renaissance the rising power of science forced the Catholic Church to silence rebellious scientists. By the 19th century the enlightenment had given rise to a new generation of scientists who pushed Christianity into retreat.

If science continues to make discoveries that conflict with Christian Doctrine will the Scientific Revolution ultimately make Christianity redundant?

"Christianity: A History" is a documentary series presenting alternative views on the history of the Christian faith, looking at its origins, development and turbulent past. High profile British personalities examine a religion that has particular resonance for them. In doing so, they bring their own perspectives to a challenging and comprehensive debate that explores Christianity's role in shaping the modern world.

[lrcavalli]

A scientist will read hundreds of books, and thinks he needs to learn more...a religious guy reads one book and thinks he knows it all

[cheliooceanstrength]

Science tells us the how, when, where, what, but NOT the 'why'. Why comes from God.

[SecondTake]

I also look at it like this. How and Why are two different things. Religion is the Why and Science is the How.

[joselperez]

STOP, STOP HUMAN WITH THE COMMENTS JUST GO ON WITH YOUR LIFE AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYONE AND ANYTHING ELSE 🤔✌🤔

[x_gosie]

..."The Catholic Church was a powerful institution, how could it be threatened by one person? Even if his ideas were revolutionary-" Well, this kind of authority in the Catholic Church, is still happening until now; Nothing's changed.

[SecondTake]

Science and Faith are Apples and Oranges. You're never going to disprove someone's Faith based on any Scientific or Archeological discoveries. That last Priest hit the nail on the head! Entire movie should have been an interview with him! I am a Deist. I have been Atheist, Christian and Agnostic. Genesis was never meant to be taken literally.

[moshooddafricanprinceakala]

Church and science, not God and science. The European churches has mostly never been about God but socio-political interest ...science on the other hand has only tried to understand Gods creation and procreate from the existing.

[ramaraksha]

How to make a Theist run away from a discussion - i have
done this several times. Let me know how this works for you. I just ask - What
does one DO in Heaven? Just an innocent question, right? But wait it's not as
easy as it looks
First they come back with - "Oh, there will be lots
to do", "God will have work for us" etc but you notice the lack
of details - well, you know where who is, right?

So ask them for details - What kind of work? How much
does it pay? Do you get time off? Or is it like the work of Sisyphus?
Ask them to describe a day in Heaven. Starting with where
do they live? In an home/apt allotted to them? Are all homes/apt the same since
there will be no classes in Heaven? In Communist countries apts were allotted
to people and they were all the same - is it like that?
Is everything free? Then why work?
Or if there is a cost - is the pay enough to live on?
Is everyone paid the same? Doctor, Bus Driver paid the same - again just like in Communist countries
Crazy isn't it? That religions share so many similarities with Communism

[edwinchanx]

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
                  ISAIAH 55:9

[npaujbais]

I am a Christian and science does not scare me. I won't lose faith in my God because I know He is real. Science was given by God. Life couldn't happen without Him. He was the big bang, he was the first creatures here on earth, he is the cosmos, he is everything and everywhere and yet, he is still one entity. If we find this world or universe complex that is because He is complex.

[maggiehalpin]

Jesus changed my life . Please give it a chance what do you have to lose

[lesliedellow]

It wasn't science which marginalised Christianity, but technology. If science was just an activity pursued by academics in their ivory towers, it would have nothing like its current prestige. It was cars an colour television sets which gave people a new god to worship. However, technology also contains the seeds of its undoing. One good nuclear war, or one genetically modified bacterium escaping into the environment, with unforeseen consequences, would soon change people's perception of science.

[CommodoreFloopjack]

Thou shalt not kill... unless, of course, the person you're about to kill doesn't believe what you do. Then it's negotiable.

[manuelrodriguez]

I've heard that all religion, not just Christianity, was created to ease death anxiety by humans. Only at that point will every person truly understand his or her existence. So, to answer your last question, in the end when all has been but explained what will be left. Is our faith. Praise the lord.

[aliensoup]

Science looks outward, Religion looks inward.

[randatatang]

Jason asked a tough question which the presenter didn't answer. Put in a different way, he was asking that if you believe that your brain is the result of a blind, unguided and random process called evolution, how is that you place confidence in the reliability of such a result. As a Christian, he has good grounds for doing science because the same mind called God created the human mind and the universe using the same principles guaranteeing that we can observe the world and expect to discover some mechanism behind it. That's a question not even Dawkins nor Darwin himself could answer.

[phillipharrington]

science will never beat Christianity because the modern scientific revolution and method came from Christianity.

[Christabbaword]

Jeremiah 8:8
8“ ‘How can you say, “We are wise,
for we have the law of the Lord, ”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
has handled it falsely?
9The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and trapped.
Since they have rejected the word

JESUS’S ETERNAL SON

of the Lord,
what kind of wisdom do they have?


10Therefore I will give their wives to other men
and their fields to new owners.
From the least to the greatest,
all are greedy for gain;
prophets and priests alike,
all practice deceit.



Psalm 14:1
For the director of music. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.



Wisdom 7

16 for we are in his hand, yes, ourselves and our sayings, and all intellectual and all practical knowledge.

17 He it was who gave me sure knowledge of what exists, to understand the structure of the world and the action of the elements,

18 the beginning, end and middle of the times, the alternation of the solstices and the succession of the seasons,

19 the cycles of the year and the position of the stars,

20 the natures of animals and the instincts of wild beasts, the powers of spirits and human mental processes, the varieties of plants and the medical properties of roots.

21 And now I understand everything, hidden or visible, for Wisdom, the designer of all things, has instructed me.

22 For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, incisive, unsullied, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, shrewd,

23 irresistible, beneficent, friendly to human beings, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed, almighty, all-surveying, penetrating all intelligent, pure and most subtle spirits.

24 For Wisdom is quicker to move than any motion; she is so pure, she pervades and permeates all things.

25 She is a breath of the power of God, pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; so nothing impure can find its way into her.

26 For she is a reflection of the eternal light, untarnished mirror of God's active power, and image of his goodness.

27 Although she is alone, she can do everything; herself unchanging, she renews the world, and, generation after generation, passing into holy souls, she makes them into God's friends and prophets;

28 for God loves only those who dwell with Wisdom.

29 She is indeed more splendid than the sun, she outshines all the constellations; compared with light, she takes first place,

30 for light must yield to night, but against Wisdom evil cannot prevail.

[felixfox]

Science is not conscience. Science is however human observations. Not higher understanding. There is no science if there is faith

[mikearcuri]

In reality, nobody knows anything with 100% certainty...embrace your ignorance!