Theologians need to heed science story

We need more aricles like this. This knowledge keeps our faith in God rock solid.

Boy do I agree. I love my father dearly, but he firmly believes it is sinful to believe the earth/universe is any older than 4-5 thousand years. He says we are being 'fooled' by science. The larger institutional church needs to be much more vocal and open about how theology and science together can point to the immensity and creativeness of God.

I just saw a great documentary on tv about the Jesuits who are astro physiciasts, astronomers and scientists who work in the observatory on the top of the papal summer residence in Italy, as well as the university of Arizona observatory and who lecture at the university. One describes himself as maybe someone who could be labelled 'heretic' yet he questions faith just as Jesus has asked us to use all our minds, and to ask questions and make requests of God (Matthew, nt).

It is called "Gallileo's Sons" and was made in 2003. It was excellent.

Yes I was saddened to find out that this brilliant astronomer scientist, university teacher Jesuit fired. No religious freedom, no freedom of religious or scientific thought is allowed by the pope. An impoverished education, an impoverished church and spirituality is what is happening to the Catholic institutions and church due to PJII and PBXVI.

Yes I was saddened to find out that this brilliant astronomer scientist, university teacher Jesuit fired. No religious freedom, no freedom of religious or scientific thought is allowed by the pope. An impoverished education, an impoverished church and spirituality is what is happening to the Catholic institutions and church due to PJII and PBXVI.

It is remarkable to me how easily educated men and women are prepared to impose what are metaphysical assertions upon the minds of the rest of us, all dressed up as if they were scientific facts.

It is a metaphysical assertion, not a scientific fact, to claim that "Today we know the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and the universe itself has an age of 13.7 billion years."

We know no such thing. Both these figures have changed dramatically over the last few decades, and it is certain they will change again.

Both of these figures are based upon assumptions which are themselves insusceptible of scientific demonstration. Both figures assume that radioisotopes have emerged naturally from a "Big Bang" event after which no elements but helium and hydrogen were initially present.

There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for this. It is merely a metaphysical assumption, adopted as a logical consequence to another metaphysical assumption, a "Big Bang".

There is, however, extremely persuasive scientific evidence that the "hot Big Bang" cannot account for observations (for example, we have observed quasars redshifted at z>4, with greater-than-solar metallicities. This cannot possibly be squared with the 13.7 billion year Big Bang fairy tale).

Additionally, it has been widely acknowledged that Big Bang theorists have had repeated recourse to entities, never observed (Cold Dark Matter, Dark Energy, etc), which are hypothesized to exist, because their existence is required to rescue the Big Bang from fatal contradictions in the face of scientific observations.

The terrifying eagerness with which many alleged Catholics are prepared to toss out Revelation and Tradition in every instance where these sources conflict with the ever-shifting, contradiction-riddled, collapsing edifice of "Standard Cosmology", tells us why the Scripture warns us about "itching ears":
2 Tim 4:3 "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."

Wonderful theological reflection is being done on this cosmology. I would highly recommend readers look at an Australian theologian called Denis Edwards who has written a series of theology books based on the new cosmology. The one I found most enthralling was The God of Evolution, - A Trinitarian Theology. It opens up a journey into our fundamental beliefs and totally reinvigorates our basic doctrines - like the Trinity. How alleged Catholics can have problems with this blows my mind. What are they up to?

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