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God & Science
"In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth…" (Genesis 1:1), the words that start it all if you are a Catholic. Children are brought up to believe
that God took seven days out of his schedule to create the earth and all that is in and on it from a "formless wasteland" (Genesis 1:2). ... Die hard followers the Bible
know little outside of the Good Book and thusly show their Those who took on the ideals of the enlightenment or raised with little to no theological beliefs have
questioned the existence of God and the Bible. They have chosen to have the power of science be their creator and saviour. ... In fact, Maimonides said, "conflicts
between science and the Bible arise from either from a lack of scientific knowledge or a defective understanding of the Bible," (Schroeder, 1997). What he means is
that science cannot answer everything with science or the Bible; there must be some happy medium where the two can play off each other. The belief in religion and
the understanding of science do not have to conflict and contradict each other; they can work together in helping people fully understand the universe, the world, life
and death, and most importantly themselves. ... The Scientific translation is none at
all; this is one of the many answers that science has not been able to provide. ... First in the religious argument: that "if the laws of nature are not fixed, if they are being tampered with in some miraculous way, then science is useless. ... The man made science works on a set of rules and theories that must be true to
be called as such.
Approximate Word count = 1366
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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