"Who first said or wrote""Science without religion is lame.Religion without science is blind""?"
"and authored an eponymous article on the subject in 1954, which later became his book ""Ideas and Opinions"" in 1955. The belief system recognized a ""miraculous order which manifests itself in all of nature as well as in the world of ideas,"" devoid of a personal God who rewards and punishes individuals based on their behavior. It rejected a conflict between science and religion, and held that cosmic religion was necessary for science. For Einstein, ""science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."" He told William Hermanns in an interview that ""God is a mystery. But a comprehensible"
"Mathematics and philosopher of science at University of Oxford John Lennox has stated, ""Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.” He criticises Richard Dawkins as a famous proponent of asserting that faith equates to holding a belief without evidence, thus that it is possible to hold belief without evidence, for failing to provide evidence for this assertion. Bertrand Russell wrote: Evolutionary"
"blind ... The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which is based on experience, which refuses dogmatism ... There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. (Albert Einstein) Other scientists, who are committed to basing belief on intersubjective verification, have called for or predicted the development of a religion consistent with science. A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by"
"with science should not be accepted; he explained that religion has to be reasonable since God endowed humankind with reason so that they can discover truth. Science and religion, in the Bahá'í writings, are compared to the two wings of a bird upon which a person's intelligence can increase, and upon which a person's soul can progress. Furthermore, the Bahá'í writings state that science without religion would lead to a person becoming totally materialistic, and religion without science would lead to a person falling into superstitious practices. `Abdu'l-Bahá in one of his public talks said: `Abdu'l-Bahá is quoted as saying"
"before this no one had pitted science against religion or vice versa, though occasional interactions were expressed in the past. More specifically, it was around the mid-1800s that discussion of ""science and religion"" first emerged because before this time, ""science"" still included moral and metaphysical dimensions, was not inherently linked to the scientific method, and the term ""scientist"" did not emerge until 1834. The scientist John William Draper and the writer Andrew Dickson White were the most influential exponents of the conflict thesis between religion and science. Draper had been the speaker in the British Association meeting of 1860 which"
"to waste, of a rich country inhabited by starving people."" The genesis and development of the idea of the scientific temper is connected to ideas expressed earlier by Charles Darwin when he said, ""[F]reedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science,"" and by Karl Marx when he said, ""Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the"
"plagues and desolation throughout the world."" Thomas Paine, a Deistic American political theorist and pamphleteer, wrote in his three-part work ""The Age of Reason"" (published in 1794, 1795, and 1807), ""The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the"
"religious beliefs) forms the basis for the conflict between religion and science. There have been attempts to bring the two into congruence, and the modern, cutting edge of science, especially in physics, seems to many observers to lend itself to a melding of religious experience and intersubjective verification of beliefs. Some scientists have described religious worldviews—generally of a mystical nature—consistent with their understanding of science: There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle ... Science without religion is lame, religion without science is"
"to be scientific, but which does not adhere to an appropriate scientific methodology, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, or otherwise lacks scientific status. Professor Paul DeHart Hurd argued that a large part of gaining scientific literacy is ""being able to distinguish science from pseudo-science such as astrology, quackery, the occult, and superstition"". A religion is a system of human thought which usually includes a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, God or gods, or ultimate truth. Atheist‘s and members of other religions may regard"
"to the progress of science, a source of immoral acts or customs and a political tool for social control. In his work ""De Rerum Natura"", the 1st century BCE Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus wrote: ""But 'tis that same religion oftener far / Hath bred the foul impieties of men"". A philosopher of the Epicurean school, Lucretius, believed the world was composed solely of matter and void and that all phenomena could be understood as resulting from purely natural causes. Despite believing in Gods, Lucretius, like Epicurus, felt that religion was born of fear and ignorance, and that understanding the"
"opinion of a relationship between science and religion. As an advocate of theistic evolution, he regards evolution and Christianity as essentially compatible, a belief he has described in his book ""God, Chance and Necessity"" and which is in contrast to his Oxford colleague Richard Dawkins, a vocal and prominent atheist. Ward has said that Dawkins's conclusion that there is no God or any purpose in the universe is ""naive"" and not based on science but on a hatred of religion. Dawkins's strong anti-religious views originate, according to Ward, from earlier encounters with ""certain forms of religion which are anti-intellectual and"
"States college students found that the majority of undergraduates in both the natural and social sciences do not see conflict between science and religion. Cross-national studies polled from 1981–2001 on views of science and religion have noted that countries with higher religiosity have stronger trust in science. Richard Dawkins contends that theistic religions devalue human compassion and morality. In his view, the Bible contains many injunctions against following one's conscience over scripture and positive actions are supposed to originate not from compassion, but from the fear of punishment. Albert Einstein stated that no religious basis is needed in order to"
"Agnosticism Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. An agnostic can also be one who holds neither of two opposing positions on a topic. The English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the word ""agnostic"" in 1869, and said ""It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe."" Earlier thinkers, however, had written works that promoted agnostic points of view, such as Sanjaya Belatthaputta, a 5th-century BCE Indian philosopher who expressed agnosticism"
"a bible, creed, or messiah. To the freethinker, revelation and faith are invalid, and orthodoxy is no guarantee of truth."" and ""Freethinkers are convinced that religious claims have not withstood the tests of reason. Not only is there nothing to be gained by believing an untruth, but there is everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition. Most freethinkers consider religion to be not only untrue, but harmful."" However, philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote the following in his 1944 essay ""The Value of Free Thought:"" The whole first paragraph of the essay makes"
"supernatural events, therefore both are incompatible. Richard Dawkins is openly hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise and education involving science. According to Dawkins, religion ""subverts science and saps the intellect"". He believes that when science teachers attempt to expound on evolution, there is hostility aimed towards them by parents who are skeptical because they believe it conflicts with their own religious beliefs, and that even in some textbooks have had the word 'evolution' systematically removed. He has worked to argue the negative effects that he believes religion has on education of science. According to Renny"
"in the 1997 Italian movie ""Nirvana (film)"" as the guru to Christopher Lambert's character. During five years (2000–2005), Dr. Pillai self-published two books ""Life Changing Sounds: Tools from the Other Side"" and ""The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment"". These books are out of print now. Pillai produced many hundreds of video clips for YouTube for which Time Magazine dubbed him as the YouTube Guru. In 2005, Pillai renamed his organization as Pillai Center for Mind Science and widened his vision to incorporate more scientific exploration of the spiritual principles. Einstein’s saying that religion without science is blind and"
"humanities do so only to the extent that they emulate the sciences. This sort of arrogance and certitude is the essence of scientism."" Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible is a 2015 book by biologist Jerry Coyne concerning the relationship between science and religion. Coyne argues that religion and science are incompatible, by surveying the history of science and stating that both religion and science make claims about the universe, yet only science is open to the fact that it may be wrong. Coyne was astonished that after"
"Without God?"" (1996), Richard Holloway's "" Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics"" (1999), Robert Buckman's ""Can We Be Good Without God?"" (2002), Michael Shermer's ""The Science of Good and Evil"" (2004), Richard Dawkins's ""The God Delusion"" (2006), Christopher Hitchens's ""God Is Not Great"" (2007), Greg Epstein's ""Good Without God: What A Billion Nonreligious People ""Do"" Believe"" (2010), and Sam Harris's ""The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values"" (2011). According to Greg Epstein, ""the idea that we can't be 'good without God' "" has been with us for nearly 2,000 years. Others suggest this idea goes back further;"
"praised Christian Science ""in the most backhanded and ironic way."" Fraser writes that whatever Twain's view of Christian Science, his view of Eddy herself was overwhelmingly hostile. He called her ""[g]rasping, sordid, penurious, famishing for everything she sees—money, power, glory—vain, untruthful, jealous, despotic, arrogant, insolent, pitiless where thinkers and hypnotists are concerned, illiterate, shallow, incapable of reasoning outside of commercial lines, immeasurably selfish."" Christian Science (book) Christian Science is a 1907 book by the American writer Mark Twain (1835–1910). The book is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in ""Cosmopolitan"""
"the case for atheism. In the 18th century, Denis Diderot argued that atheism was less scientific than metaphysics. Prior to Charles Darwin, the findings of biology did not play a major part in the atheist's arguments since in the earliest avowedly atheist texts atheists were embarrassed to an appeal to chance against the available arguments for design. As Schroeder has noted, throughout the 17th and 18th centuries theists excelled atheists in their ability to make contributions to the serious study of biological processes. In the time of the Enlightenment, mechanical philosophy was developed by Christians such as Isaac Newton, René"
"is none that does good"" (Psalm 14:1). In his essay ""On Atheism"", Francis Bacon criticized the dispositions towards atheism as being ""contrary to wisdom and moral gravity"" and being associated with fearing government or public affairs. He also stated that knowing a little science may lead one to atheism, but knowing more science will lead one to religion. In another work called ""The Advancement of Learning"", Bacon stated that superficial knowledge of philosophy inclines one to atheism while more knowledge of philosophy inclines one toward religion. In ""Reflections on the Revolution in France"", Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish philosopher and"
"Christian Science Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements. It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who argued in her 1875 book ""Science and Health"" that sickness is an illusion that can be corrected by prayer alone. The book became Christian Science's central text, along with the Bible, and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies. Eddy and 26 followers were granted a charter in 1879 to found the Church of Christ, Scientist, and in 1894 the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ,"
"summarises ""There is No Natural Religion"" as ""an early and fundamental statement of [Blake's] philosophical beliefs, expressed in the rational language of 18th-century philosophers."" In line with this way of thinking, S. Foster Damon suggests that ""the first series states John Locke's philosophy of the five senses until it becomes self-evidently absurd."" A similar conclusion is reached by Denise Vultee, who argues that both ""All Religions are One"" and ""There is No Natural Religion"" are ""part of Blake's lifelong quarrel with the philosophy of Bacon, Newton, and Locke. Rejecting the rational empiricism of 18th-century deism or ""natural religion"", which looked"
"lawgiver.' In other words, it was belief in God that was the motor that drove modern science"". American geneticist Francis Collins also cites Lewis as persuasive in convincing him that theism is the more rational world view than atheism. Other criticisms focus on perceived effects on morality and social cohesion. The Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, a deist, saw godlessness as weakening ""the sacred bonds of society"", writing: ""If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"". The father of classical liberalism, John Locke, believed that the denial of God's existence would undermine the social order and lead to"
"by the Jansenist thinker Blaise Pascal, and particularly by the existentialist thinker Søren Kierkegaard, who thought that the act of faith requires a leap into the void, which amounts to a sacrifice of the intellect and reason. This was quintessentially expressed in the traditional dictum, ""credo quia absurdum"", ""I believe because it is absurd."" This view of faith is rejected by the Catholic church, which regards reason as a path towards direct knowledge of God. The phrase is often used in a pejorative sense in writings on the psychology and sociology of religion - e.g.: Sacrifice of the intellect The"
"Discourse on the Arts and Sciences A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: ""Discours sur les sciences et les arts"") and commonly referred to as The First Discourse, is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued that the arts and sciences corrupt human morality. It was Rousseau's first successful published philosophical work, and it was the first expression of his influential views about nature vs. society, to which he would dedicate the rest of his intellectual life. This work is considered one of"
"Since the 19th century, science has been employed in both theistic and atheistic cultures, depending on the prevailing popular beliefs. In reviewing the rise of modern science, Taner Edis notes that science does work without atheism and that atheism largely remains a position that is adopted for philosophical or ethical, rather than scientific reasons. The history of atheism is heavily invested in the philosophy of religion and this has resulted in atheism being weakly tied to other branches of philosophy and almost completely disconnected from science which means that it risks becoming stagnant and completely irrelevant to science. Sociologist Steve"
"is the answer to the complaints of those who feel the insufficiency of the natural light; and the insufficiency of that light is the justification of his mission. All sciences, except the science of Religion, have their certainty in themselves; as far as they are sciences, they consist of necessary conclusions from undeniable premises, or of phenomena manipulated into general truths by an irresistible induction. But the sense of right and wrong, which is the first element in religion, is so delicate, so fitful, so easily puzzled, obscured, perverted, so subtle in its argumentative methods, so impressible by education, so"
"Religion and Nothingness Religion and Nothingness (""""; the original title translates literally as ""What is Religion?"") is a 1961 book by the Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani, in which the author discusses nihilism. The book was published in English translation in 1982, and received positive reviews, commending Nishitani for his understanding of both western and eastern philosophy. The appearance of the English translation increased interest in Nishitani's ideas among philosophers. ""Religion and Nothingness"" first appeared in English translation in 1982, generating increasing interest in Nishitani's ideas among philosophers, theologians, and religious scholars. The book received positive reviews from Donald L. Smith"
"science"". He stated: ""There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."" In an interview published in ""The Guardian"", Hawking regarded ""the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail"", and the concept of an afterlife as a ""fairy story for people afraid of the dark"". In 2011, narrating the first episode of the American television series ""Curiosity"" on the Discovery Channel, Hawking declared: In September 2014, he joined the Starmus Festival as keynote speaker and declared himself"
"roots of both science (""scientia"") and religion (""religio"") were understood as inner qualities of the individual or virtues, never as doctrines, practices, or actual sources of knowledge. It was in the 19th century that the concept of ""science"" received its modern shape with new titles emerging such as ""biology"" and ""biologist"", ""physics"" and ""physicist"" among other technical fields and titles; institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred. The term ""scientist"" was first coined by the naturalist-theologian William Whewell in 1834 and it was applied to those who sought"
"cited Psalm 93 against Nicolaus Copernicus or the wholly unfounded assertion that most Christians prior to Christopher Columbus believe in a flat earth. By insisting that all aspects of the history of science and religion must fit into one poorly chosen conceptual box, the ‘warfare’ view lied by gross oversimplification and led numerous scholars to overlook the large amount of historical material that just didn’t fit into that box."" Historian of science and the son of a Seventh-day Adventist preacher Ronald Numbers has stated, in a collection dealing with inaccuracies made by White and others, ""Historians of science have known"
"Religious Science Science of Mind was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term ""Science of Mind"" applies to the teachings, while the term ""Religious Science"" applies to the organizations. However, adherents often use the terms interchangeably. In his book, ""The Science of Mind"", Ernest Holmes stated ""Religious Science is a correlation of laws of science, opinions of philosophy, and revelations of religion applied to human needs and the aspirations of man."" He also stated that Religious Science/Science of Mind (RS/SOM) is not"