Religion and Science: Can They Coexist in the Modern World

When comparing science and religion there has been a great rift. As long as humanity has believed in a creator there as always been thinkers trying to quantify and evaluate the truth behind religion, trying to disprove or prove a supernatural force.

This narrative, which describes how God created the universe in six days, can be found in the first few paragraphs of the Bible. It is said that on Day One, God created the heavens and the earth and allowed there to be light upon the earth. God then allowed a separation of waters above from the waters below on day Two; this separated the skies and the seas. On the third day, God formed dry land and allowed the earth to sprout vegetation. God then allowed the heavenly lights to appear on the earth on Day Four. On Day Five, God created animals to inhabit the earth. The sixth and final day of creation of the universe saw God creating other animals such as carnivores and humans to inhabit the earth as well (The literal interpretation of the Genesis One Creation account, 2007).

According to the Bible, the young-earth’s perspective believes that the earth is only a few thousand years old. This provides a clear description of the key differences between the old-earth secular perspective of nebular hypothesis and the young-earth’s perspective of a six-day

John William Draper, in the History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, states, “The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.” John William Draper brings up a strong truth behind the progression of science. Human faith inevitably conflicts with the progression of science. One may think that religion is the moral part of human belief and science is the advancement of intellect. It is inevitable that morals and the advancement of intellect would. Emotions and morals sometimes may overpower what the advancement of science would lead to. This concept is present in the ethical controversy involved with the Catholic Church and stem cell research. The moral and heart of many members of the Catholic Church easily disables the acceptance and support of stem cell research. This is unfortunate because stem cell usage and research has tremendous potential in helping those that suffer from disease. Stem cell research will advance medical fields and assist in finding cures for deadly ailments. Many followers of the Catholic Church view the science of stem cell research as killing innocent lives, however a sense of the faithful needs to come into action in order to look passed tradition and history to

Summer for the Gods concentrates on the Dayton, Tennessee Scopes trial, or "Monkey Trial," of 1925. The trial was over a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in public schools. The American Civil Liberties Union protested the law with teacher, John Scopes, who agreed to help. The"trial of the century" brought together two famous political enemies, William Jennings Bryan, who led the anti-evolution crusade, and Clarence Darrow, who was known as the best criminal defense lawyer and evolution supporter. The author presents the history of controversy that led to the trial. Fossil discoveries, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and increased attendance in public high schools influenced the anti-evolution movement due to the

The language in the book of Genesis only occurs when there is a literal view of time. The fact was that the earth was without form and void may help us to understand why readings are sometimes so random and/or old. The writings of Scripture and the writings of Ellen White both argue for a young earth, although we cannot determine the exact date.

I support the idea that the Earth is truly 4.6 billion years old because I believe that the Bible uses the word “days” when discussing creation because we can wrap our brain around God’s time period. “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” Psalm 90:4 (NIV). This verse sums up exactly what I believe: that God’s time scale is different than the time scale we experience, therefore, a day to us could easily be a thousand years, or more to God. My next premise is that when God created the Garden of Eden and all of the creatures of the Earth that the Garden of Eden was a very sacred place. Therefore, I believe that very early humans, such as cavemen were created outside of the garden because God was experimenting to see which specimen would be perfect for ruling the Earth. Though this process of trial and error, God decided that he needed to create a man who possessed similar qualities as He, because He is perfect. “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…’” Genesis 1:26 (NIV). Furthermore, I propose that it was the Great Flood that caused the mass amount of dinosaurs to die. My theory is that once it began to rain, massive landslides began occurring on the Earth’s surface. It was these landslides that

Young Earth creationists accept biblical creation story of Genesis as well as the Flood, Tower of Babel, exceptionally long life spans biblical characters such as Adam, Noah, Seth, Enos, Methuselah and they also accept that the Earth is around 6,000 years of age and deny that the Earth is any older. Old Earth creationists, acknowledge the possibility to unify the biblical explanation of creation along with the scientific theory that the universe is over 13,000,000,000 years old and the Earth is over 4,000,000,000 years

Mikhail Lomonosov, a Russian naturalist in the 1700s, believed that the earth was several hundred thousand years old. Such estimate was then improved when the earth was dated at 75,000 years old by Comte du Buffon, a French scientist. He established this from the rapid caliber of cooling in the rocks that he had calculated. The father of contemporary geology, Charles Lyell, attacked the idea of catastrophism and popularized the law of uniformitarianism, which is that, since the beginning of the earth, the current processes of the earth have been transpiring. Such principle resulted in more ancient estimates of the earth's age. Many scientists, around the time of Darwin, assumed an age around four hundred million years old, give or take one million years. The most widely acknowledged assessment of the earth's age today is nearly four and a half billion years old. Following these assertions, humans did not exist on the earth until about three million years ago ("What Does the Fossil Record Show?"). Therefore, because of these ancient estimates, rooted in science, the Bible is in conflict with science and should not be accepted as truth, since it advertises the creation of the world in one week, and the creation of humans within that

Theistic evolution and old-earth Creationism is supported by scientific discoveries, and then focuses on using the Bible as historical evidence. Many believe that scientific information proves that the earth is billions of years old, and that the days in Genesis should not be interpreted as literal twenty-four hour days. Scientific evidence of fossils and evolution are merely humanistic estimations of time. Evolutionists and old-earth creationism seek to justify the days of creation in Genesis through 2 Peter 3:8; “…with the Lord one day is like a thousand years . . ..” (NASB). This passage is misleading to the length of days needed for creation; God’s day is not stated as a thousand years. The context of this

To answer this question my friend Maddie said that the Earth and life are difficult to separate because life exists on earth and is one with it (plant, particles, water, etc.) These are the things that are supposed to be around 2 billion years old. Maddie said, “I am not a scientist, however, I know that what we have now has developed over time and I believe that it has changed. (I.e. Dinosaurs, continents, rocks) My friend Garrett said that he believes the earth is trillions of years old because of the scientific findings. My friend Bogdan believes that the earth is 4.54 billions years old according to evolution. I believe that the earth is about 6,000 years old. If you add up the genealogies mentioned in Matthew, you get a total of close to 6,000 years. In the Bible we can also calculate about 2,000 years from the time of Abraham to Christ, and using genealogies again, there were about 2,000 years before the flood. There are certain things in the world that definitely appear to be older than what most creationists would claim the earth to be. However, I believe that God could have created things with apparent age and that the flood could have influenced our dating of various items, as well. One of the main problems with an older earth is death before sin. Adam and Eve would have had to have lived for millions of years before sin entered the

(Mortenson, 2011) Young Earth Creationist believe in the idea of the Hebrew word Yom. (Morris, 2011) This word translates to mean a literal day and is used in Genesis to describe each day of creation. We as Christians must take the Bible as true, this being the whole bible including the Old Testament. In regards to the age of the Earth, young earth creationist take Genesis 5 as a genealogy of the Earth. The genealogies of Genesis 5 as well as 11 give people an idea of the years and happenings from Adam to Abraham. Scholars can mostly agree that Abraham lived about 2000 BC. All of these facts then set the date of creation at approximately 6000 years ago. (Mortenson, 2011)

Science “aims to save the spirit, not by surrender but by the liberation of the human mind” (Wilson, 7). Both religion and science seek to explain the unknown. Instead of surrendering reasoning with the traditional religion, a scientific approach one takes full authority over it. Being an empiricist, Wilson takes favors the scientific approach to the question: “why are things the way they are?” This question can pose two meanings: How did this happen, and what is the purpose. Traditional religion answers this question with stories, many of which are impossible to prove or disprove, making them arguments of ignorance. These explanations entail the adherent surrender reasoning and put faith in the resolution. According to Wilson these are always wrong (Wilson, 49). Science is the most effective way to learn about the natural world. Religion is merely speculation.

The “young earth creationist” perceptive is the result of a historical-grammatical reading of the description of the early Earth in the Bible or the Islamic Qur’an, which both contain similar accounts of a six-day creation, Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and Noah’s flood (Biblical

Is it possible for science and religion to coexist? In both The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Man Who Fell to The Earth, the idea of science versus religion is questioned. The films show that our world is rapidly changing and how society reacts to events during those specific times by questioning spiritual faith. Certain sounds that are heard throughout both movies allow us to feel the tone that each movie tries to relay. These sound effects help the viewers understand moments of tension, fear, desperation, peacefulness, to name a few. In addition, certain cinematic techniques that portray quick cuts, long and complex scenes, and much more allow viewers to explore the relationship