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- From: ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe)
- Newsgroups: aus.religion
- Subject: Re: God and Science: Are they incompatible?
- Date: 17 Nov 92 07:25:14 GMT
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
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- pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:
-
- >The following article appeared in The Physics Society of Sydneys
- >journal "Jeremy", this year.
-
- >God and Science: are they incompatible?
-
- >The church has never been too kind to the scientific mind,
-
- Apart from of course making a scientific mind possible, through
- St Thomas Aquinas' soft realism and so on.
-
- >and any challenge
- >to the authority of the church has generally led to the perpetrator being
- >branded a heretic.
-
- A person who does challenge the legitimate authority of the church is
- a heretic (though I certainly agree with St Martin of Tours and St Ambrose
- that heretics should not be executed, let me hasten to add). The Galilleo
- apology recently seems to me to be a case where the church did not have
- legitimate authority to speak: it should stick to matters of faith and
- morals.
-
- -ricko
-