Wariness about \\u201cabsolute truth\\u201d<\\/h3>\\n In his outlook, the best way to hold faith-based beliefs is to acknowledge \\u201cthe possibility of being wrong\\u201d and allow \\u201croom for others to have different beliefs\\u201d without confusing faith with \\u201cabsolute truth.\\u201d But, needless to say, most religions and most religionists do hold to absolutes.<\\/p>\\n He continues that \\u201creligious faith doesn\\u2019t have to involve denialism,\\u201d defined as rejection of the existing scientific evidence due to religious faith, as with those he labels \\u201cfundamentalists.\\u201d A typical example would be the \\u201cyoung Earth\\u201d creationists, whose literal interpretation of the Bible rejects science\\u2019s long-held conclusion that our universe and home planet have existed for billions upon billions of years.<\\/p>\\n Unlike faith-based knowledge, science is open to reformulated theories derived from new data, he continues. \\u201cMost of us hold scientific belief based not so much on faith as on the trust of experts.\\u201d When people lose trust in scientists\\u2019 expert consensus, the path is open to denial of evidence, misinformation, and unverified conspiracy theories that are fostered especially on the Internet.<\\/p>\\n

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"telescopic Mirrors with telescope: counting stars vs. the cells in one brain. \/ Pixabay.com<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

THE RELIGION GUY\u2019S ANSWER:<\/p>\n

The question above was the headline with a November 14 psychologytoday.com article by Joseph Pierre, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco \u2013 the latest of so many that address this perennial issue. His answer was yes or no, depending. Atheists may say no, period. As we\u2019ll see, prominent scientists have replied with a yes.<\/p>\n

Pierre explains that \u201cmany of our beliefs are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to falsify,\u201d and religion seeks to offer satisfactory answers\u00a0for many such scientific \u201cunknowns.\u201d Examples: Does God exist? What happens when we die? With these kinds of inevitable questions humans ask, faith believes \u201cin the absence of evidence\u201d as science understands that term.<\/p>\n

Wariness about \u201cabsolute truth\u201d<\/h3>\n In his outlook, the best way to hold faith-based beliefs is to acknowledge \u201cthe possibility of being wrong\u201d and allow \u201croom for others to have different beliefs\u201d without confusing faith with \u201cabsolute truth.\u201d But, needless to say, most religions and most religionists do hold to absolutes.<\/p>\n He continues that \u201creligious faith doesn\u2019t have to involve denialism,\u201d defined as rejection of the existing scientific evidence due to religious faith, as with those he labels \u201cfundamentalists.\u201d A typical example would be the \u201cyoung Earth\u201d creationists, whose literal interpretation of the Bible rejects science\u2019s long-held conclusion that our universe and home planet have existed for billions upon billions of years.<\/p>\n Unlike faith-based knowledge, science is open to reformulated theories derived from new data, he continues. \u201cMost of us hold scientific belief based not so much on faith as on the trust of experts.\u201d When people lose trust in scientists\u2019 expert consensus, the path is open to denial of evidence, misinformation, and unverified conspiracy theories that are fostered especially on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Grounded in skepticism<\/h3>\n By its nature, he explains, science \u201cis grounded in a particular form of skepticism.\u201d So \u201cwhen there\u2019s no evidence, as with many religious questions, science tends to be either agnostic or nihilistic, which is not always appropriate.\u201d And it\u2019s important to acknowledge that \u201cmany people have religious beliefs and still think scientifically.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of them are not just scientists but famously so, he reminds us, and cites in particular Francis Collins, the recently retired director of America\u2019s National Institutes of Health, who was much in the news over political entanglements in the COVID crisis.<\/p>\n For the purposes of this article, he\u2019s important as the head of the world\u2019s largest funder of biomedical research, with $45 billion in grants during fiscal 2022. Before that, Collins spent 15 years leading the NIH\u2019s National Human Genome Research Institute as it concluded the massive effort that largely mapped the genes in humanity\u2019s chromosomes. While at the University of Michigan, he established his reputation as one of the world\u2019s top genetic researchers by identifying the gene that causes cystic fibrosis.<\/p>\n On the religious side, Collins depicted his conversion from atheism to evangelical Christianity, and told how faith and science are congruent, in his 2006 book \u201cThe Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief\u201d (Free Press). In it, he insists that \u201cGod is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it possible\u201d and science is actually \u201cenhanced\u201d by God.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contrary to some fellow believers, Collins embraces \u201ctheistic evolution,\u201d according to which God\u2019s creative work is seen as operating through Darwin\u2019s theory of natural selection over eons of time to produce the proliferation of biological species. He adds, however, that Darwinism\u2019s explanatory power is limited in certain ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarmony\u201d with biblical faith<\/h3>\n Responding to the wide discussion about his book, Collins in 2009 founded BioLogos (https:\/\/biologos.org\/<\/a>), with posted Web writings and related educational programs to promote this viewpoint. BioLogos believes that \u201cthe Bible is the inspired and authoritative word of God\u201d and \u201cinvites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith as we present an evolutionary understanding of God\u2019s creation.\u201d<\/p>\n The Guy started pondering all this in recent days when learning about the death this past May 28 of another world-class U.S. Christian in science, Owen Gingerich, a longtime astronomy professor at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Gingrich had various technical discoveries to his credit but his stature became news when the International Astronomical Union chose him to chair the committee to decide whether Pluto, though small, is still to be regarded as a planet in our solar system. (His panel said yes, but instead the I.A.U. called it a \u201cdwarf planet.\u201d)<\/p>\n Gingrich, a lifelong member of the Mennonite church, formulated his thinking on the science-and-religion interchange in a Harvard lecture series that he turned into the fascinating little book \u201cGod\u2019s Universe\u201d (Harvard University Press) Bu coincidence, it appeared simultaneously with Collins\u2019s work and, like it, is clearly framed for amateurs like The Guy.<\/p>\n As you\u2019d expect with such a prominent cosmologist, Gingerich affirmed Darwin\u2019s basic insight and the vast timescale of the universe, over against what\u2019s called \u201ccreationism.\u201d He also opposed the \u201cIntelligent Design\u201d movement insofar as it\u2019s offered as a refutation of Darwinism. He did conclude that the inexplicably complex person we know as God is the reasonable path for understanding the cosmos as described by science.<\/p>\n Set aside the infinitely vast universe, he suggested, and consider just each individual human\u2019s brain, which per science is \u201cby far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.\u201d It contains a number of synapse connections between nerve cells that \u201cvastly exceeds the number of stars in our Milky Way,\u201d namely 10 to the 15th<\/sup> power for the cells compared with 10 to the 11th<\/sup> power for the stars.<\/p>\n

A \u201cwonderfully congenial\u201d universe<\/h3>\n \ Then there\u2019s the precise ratio between Earth\u2019s existing molecules of oxygen and carbon, the gravitational forces and other environmental conditions that are \u201cwonderfully congenial to intelligent, self-conscious life,\u201d that is, humanity as science knows it. Are we humans \u201cthe unplanned outcome of a naturalistic, mechanistic process \u2013 that is, essentially a glorious accident\u201d? Gingerich concluded that what we observe is both \u201cextraordinary and improbable,\u201d which means the universe \u201ccarries the hidden assumption of design and purpose\u201d i.e. God. And there\u2019s much more.<\/p>\n \ Speaking of scientists as believing Christians, Gingerich was a specialist in the history of science and discussed four major astronomers in his companion book \u201cGod\u2019s Planet\u201d (2014, also from Harvard). Copernicus (1473 \u2013 1543) proposed that Earth rotates around the sun, laying ground for Galileo (1564 \u2013 1642) and his celebrated conflict with the Vatican over Bible interpretation. Johannes Kepler (1571 \u2013 1630) developed the laws of planets\u2019 motions in the solar system, from which Isaac Newton (1643 \u2013 1727) assessed the gravitation among the planets and with the Earth and the Moon.<\/p>\n Gingerich was a member of the American Scientific Affiliation (https:\/\/network.asa3.org<\/a>), an organization of scientists and science educators who believe in \u201cthe divine inspiration, trustworthiness and authority of the Bible in matters of faith and conduct\u201d and \u2013 pertinent to this discussion \u2014 that \u201cin creating and preserving the universe, God has endowed it with contingent order and intelligibility, the basis of scientific investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n Those interested in pursuing these issues might well read the Collins and Gingerich books, and could tune in to a free ASA symposium streamed online January 27 on the topic \u201cWhy Science and Faith Need Each Other in These Times.\u201d Register here: https:\/\/network.asa3.org\/events\/EventDetails.aspx?id=1794617&group=\/<\/a> Keynoter Elaine Howard Ecklund is a Rice University sociologist who specializes in the relationship between science and religion.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mirrors with telescope: counting stars vs. the cells in one brain. \/ Pixabay.com \u00a0 \u00a0 THE RELIGION GUY\u2019S ANSWER: The question above was the headline with a November 14 psychologytoday.com article by Joseph Pierre, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco \u2013 the latest of so many that address this 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