Comments on: Science and Religion

By: chris c

chris c — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:05:33 +0000

science and religion are trying to answer the same questions that man has been searching for: who or what are we? in the ancient world when someone was ill, people use to say thats the illness was caused by negative energy. in modern times, we know that disease cannot exist in the body without and acidic environment. acid(ph-) by its nature is a negative energy. aren’t they saying the same thing? we are finally knowing enough with science to explain what the ancient seers knew for thousands of years.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:23:19 +0000

*facepalm* Because God explains everything in human experience.

By: Pedro123

Pedro123 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:28:45 +0000

Both had good points as well as open minds to each other’s points of view, so each was learn from the other. This is what science and religion should be about – not being afraid to explore the nature of God and of His creation. Very refreshing to hear.

By: teobesta

teobesta — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:29:35 +0000

i wish there were more podcasts!

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:39:17 +0000

Thanks for sharing Brian. Not all of us are as lucky as you.

I was at a talk a number of talks recently and there seems to be an interesting idea going around that existence is naturally evolving towards higher complexity. This is something we are seeing happening all around us today with technology evolving faster than ever before. With the theories of a simplified start to the universe, this aligns with this idea. Nevermind the still unanswered question of how life evolved (perhaps the universe was designed to produce life inevitably).

But the question then is this, what is the reason for the evolutionary process, and where is it taking us? Time perhaps has been created as a framework so that we can evolve? And the fact that the past and present are linked means that perhaps there is another scientific principle missing? (When I watch my pc screen it appears to stay where it is). Has this been defined at quantum level?

Perhaps the quantum world can help answer some of our biggest questions!

By: Ray Villarreal

Ray Villarreal — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:28:03 +0000

I do believe that it’s impossible for any human to be above any God since it’s most improbable for any human to be above any entity that doesn’t exist. But the real can be over the imaginative.
Humanity cannot ever even begin to ‘know’ itself until it begins to understand the physics of itself.

By: Missy

Missy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:37:29 +0000

I particularly liked the Reverend’s suggestion that the afterlife may be more of a dimension than a place, and how much of our so-called understanding of the Bible is about language and honorisms. I wonder then how the Bible would read if it were re-written now, with all that we have learned about our Universe so far.

Prof. Cox should be proud of these podcasts, they have kept me rivetted for hours on end!

By: tony

tony — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:35:15 +0000

pete, if we take the bible as gods word, there is an obvious conflict between science and religion! an athiest has an obvious motivation to further mans natural intelligence whilst making a better world/worlds for himself! what need has there ever been for man to evolve an enquiring mind if god has had the future mapped out from the metaphorical day one?

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:25:29 +0000

Interesting, I can’t wait to see what CERN gives us … To be honest, I don’t see why religion and science should conflict. As a Christian, I believe that God also reveals himself through his creation. Since God can’t contradict himself, much of the Bible shouldn’t be taken literally. Some of the greatest physicists pursued their research “to honour God and His creation.” As Galileo said: “The intention of the Bible is to teach how to go to heaven and not how go the heavens,” but I don’t quite get why so many scientists think they’re above God and can be atheists.

By: Sergio E. Wybo

Sergio E. Wybo — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:54:10 +0000

What a pleasure to be able to listen to your Podcast with the Very Reverend Victor Stock, surely one of the great exceptions amongst, usually dogmatic, clergymen.

I wish the media (and society in general) spent much more time talking and learning about science and getting away from those dark, ignorant superstitions we call religion that heve become the excuse for so many wars and injustices.

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