I had to have Grok dumb that down for me, but yeah! Bookmarking this one to hopefully share at the right moment with my now atheist/agnostic engineer son that also has an amazing mind for chemistry.
I wonder if this anti-theism in academic science is party due to the rise of creation science (YEC) propaganda since the 1960s. The anti-science we see in American churches today is being doing a good witness. And often YEC misinterpret scientific discoveries for their own purpose.
Perhaps these are some reasons why scientists are hesitant to make a claim of design in nature.
Meanwhile, philosophical comments of an atheist nature—"this sure seems like design but it's definitely not; that's just an illusion!"—are taken as "science", when they are just as faith-based as theistic comments.
I had to have Grok dumb that down for me, but yeah! Bookmarking this one to hopefully share at the right moment with my now atheist/agnostic engineer son that also has an amazing mind for chemistry.
I wonder if this anti-theism in academic science is party due to the rise of creation science (YEC) propaganda since the 1960s. The anti-science we see in American churches today is being doing a good witness. And often YEC misinterpret scientific discoveries for their own purpose.
Perhaps these are some reasons why scientists are hesitant to make a claim of design in nature.
That is a good point, and quite valid. We should pray for an end to the warfare between science and faith, and do what we can to end it.
Meanwhile, philosophical comments of an atheist nature—"this sure seems like design but it's definitely not; that's just an illusion!"—are taken as "science", when they are just as faith-based as theistic comments.
Absolutely. Amen.
My college thermodynamics text said something very similar at the end.
No kidding. I never thought of thermodynamics as a holy phenomenon. I better look into that.