INTEGRATING RELIGION WITH ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE. SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION - A PARADIGM SHIFT

(PART 13)

OPINIONS OF GREAT SCIENTIST ON CREATION, THE NATURE OF MAN AND CONCLUSION

Below are the opinions of some great scientists on creation and the nature of man right through the ages.

ARISTOTLE (384-322BC): While aware that the science world might be alluding to cracks in the fields of mechanism and cosmological aspects of his words, it is also a fact that in the relevant fields to the subject under reference, that is in his Biological words, Aristotle is regarded as “The Master of those that know”(Encyclopaedia Britannica)

In respect of the nature of man, Aristotle says;

“See how the heaven's high architect hath framed man in this wise, to stand, to see, to look, erect, with body, face and eyes.

And Cicero says, like Moses, all creatures were made to rot on the earth, except man, to whom was given an upright frame to contemplate his maker, and to behold the mansion prepared for him above.”

From works of ARISTOTLE Camden Publishing Co Ltd. London

SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642 1727): English Physical Scientist and Mathematician,described as‘scientific giant’ and one of the greatest figure in the History of Science, described as ‘a man of quite exceptional ability’ is said to have been ‘profoundly interested in religious matter.’(Encyclopaedia Britannica)

ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955): One of the greatest figures in physics and as well as a large number of other scientists, are of the opinion that, the universe could not have been by chance.

Below are more views on evolution and the mysteries of creation from scientist and philosophers.

“No line of scientific thought has so rapidly seized so many minds as that associated with Charles Darwin (1809).

Now however, the thunders of the evolutionary conflict rumble only from further frontiers of philosophical discussions.

But in considering this and other great scientific ideals, it must always be borne in mind that science never considers and cannot consider the world as a whole.

Gross errors have been made even by scientific men through this transference of scientific terms from their original field of reference.

This may be seen from, for example, the mass of fruitless disputation that has arisen around such words as ‘evolution’, ‘instinct’, ‘heredity’, ‘nationality’,‘value’to give a scientific appearance to no scientific judgement; or organ endless confusion between the scientific, the philosophic and the theological usage of such terms as ‘substance’,‘theory’, ‘idea’, ‘cause’, ‘purpose’, ‘function’.

There is therefore absolute need for decision makers within the Science world to note the above comments bearing in mind the following.

The fact that many Great Scientists from the past and present as pointed out in this discourse acknowledge the existence of a Deity to whom is attributed all creation and the orderliness in nature.

Hence, one of the greatest modern scientists Albert Einstein is called 2nd Isaiah because all his tested theories have been scientifically found to be correct, reminiscent of the prophesies of Isaiah in the Holy Bible which science has discovered to be true, confirming that scientists recognises Holy Bible messages to be authentic.