Science And Faith: Compatible Universal Law?
...other cultures. Frequently these cultures have different belief systems than my own. Sometimes I agree with sometimes I don’t, but always I try to respect other Faiths without prejudice. In the Arab culture there is a saying , “It is written.” This implies that our lives are in the Hand of God. In the movie Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O’toole, playing Lawrence, famously Says, “nothing is written!”, implying that our lives are our own. This is the essence of what I would like to discuss. Are our lives already written? Or are we writing them? And are these contradictory or compatible?
Determinism , according to Wikipidea is the philosophical proposition that event including human cognition, decision and action, is causally ‘determined” by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. Or in my words, the Universe is beautiful, majestic, harmonic. Naturals laws govern the Universe in a perfect order. Everything is cyclic in nature (similar to day and night, dream and awakening, life and death). The demonstration of this pattern , evolution, plays out in a circular and repetitive flood of predictable events. Seasons appear at the same times, animals give birth a specific times. There is a biologic, but scientific clock which runs the Universe. “Keith Devlin defines mathematics as “ the “science of patterns”. Then, what about things that have no pattern? “Patternlessness” is itself a pattern, in the same sense as formlessness is a form.”(Craigen)
But a question arises as to whether man is part of this harmonic system or whether he is an exception. If man is part of this ordered scientific system, why does seem so often to be chaotic, full of pain and distress?
In my paper I would like to examine the relationship between science, which is considered to be a system of facts, and Faith, which is considered to be a system of beliefs; and how these are related , and whether...
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