Science and Religion - Two disciplines, One Reality
Talk by Prof. René van Woudenberg
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#FaradayInstitute Summer Course 2020: Telling A Better Story - Why Faith and Science Belong Together
Monday 29th June A better story about the nature of reality
10.00 am Science and religion – two disciplines, one reality - Prof. René van Woudenberg
2.00 pm How do we know what we know in science and religion? – Prof. Roger Trigg
8.00 pm A theology of science – Prof. Tom McLeish
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Abstract
This is a “big-picture” talk. I will be painting a big picture of how humans acquire knowledge (or reasonable beliefs) about the world in which serious science and serious religion play complementary and co-operative roles. This big-picture stands in stark contrast with that warfare picture that paints science and religion as engaged in on-going warfare and, as time progresses, with religion on the losing side.
The big-picture I will be painting contains the following points:
There is one world (‘world’ is the most general term that I use for whatever it is that exists; the world, in this sense, includes God and all that God created)
The one world that exists contains things of radically different natures
The one world that exists displays a fair number of irreducible aspects
Knowledge of the world needs to be based on evidence
Evidence comes in a great variety: there is, among others, the evidence of the senses, there is testimonial evidence, there is intuitive (rational) evidence, there is moral evidence, there is (as for example Christians believe) the evidence of divine revelation.
There are more kinds of evidence than those that science is sensitive to
Since there is only one world, the kinds of evidence cannot be in conflict with each other
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