bs2 · @bsmall2
203 followers · 3711 posts · Server mstdn.jp> ... there has always been a conflict between religion and science; and in the second place, both religion and science have always been in a state of continual development... Theology itself exhibits exactly the same character of gradual development, arising from an aspect of conflict between its own proper ideas.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1925/08/religion-and-science/304220/
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611
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bs2 · @bsmall2
226 followers · 4006 posts · Server mstdn.jp> ... there has always been a conflict between religion and science; and in the second place, both religion and science have always been in a state of continual development... Theology itself exhibits exactly the same character of gradual development, arising from an aspect of conflict between its own proper ideas.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1925/08/religion-and-science/304220/
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611
#AlfredNorthWhitehead #ReligionAndScience #ScienceAndTheModernWorld #Theology
#theology #ScienceAndTheModernWorld #ReligionAndScience #AlfredNorthWhitehead
bs2 · @bsmall2
195 followers · 3346 posts · Server mstdn.jp> In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variationon the theme of #DonQuixote.
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bs2 · @bsmall2
195 followers · 3346 posts · Server mstdn.jp> The immediate reaction of human nature to the religious vision is #worship.. It is the one element in human experience which persistently shows an upward trend. It fades and then recurs.
#AlfredNorthWhitehead wrote or #religion in the book #ScienceAndTheModernWorld. The #ReligionAndScience chapter is in the collecion of essays #TowardLiberalEducation. The essay keeps coming to mind along with writings by #BertrandRussel (#Icarus and #Science as #PowerOver). They wrote #PrincipiaMathematica..
#PrincipiaMathematica #PowerOver #science #icarus #bertrandrussel #TowardLiberalEducation #ReligionAndScience #ScienceAndTheModernWorld #religion #AlfredNorthWhitehead #worship
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> In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory. This is one great reason for the utmost toleration of variety of opinion. Once and forever, this duty of toleration has been summed up in the words, ‘Let both grow together until the harvest.' The failure of #Christians.. --- [2] (1925)
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