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Snijdt het kosmologisch argument nog hout? Over de verhouding tussen wetenschap en geloof
Datum
Woensdag 16 december om 12.30u
Inhoud
Inleiding door prof. André Cloots (HIW) gevolgd door een gezamenlijke discussie over een tekst van zijn hand die u hier kan terugvinden.
Locatie
Het seminarie gaat door in de lounge van het Pauscollege (ingang Hogeschoolplein, zaaltje rechts vooraan).
Er wordt gezorgd voor drank en broodjes.
Rond 14u. ronden we af.
Voorbije activiteiten
Tradition and Today: Religion and Science
Father Coyne bezorgde ons het volgende abstract van zijn uitéénzetting: 'I wish to present four case histories which indicate that the relationship between religion and science has, in the course of three centuries, passed from one of conflict to one of compatible openness and dialogue. In doing this I hope to show that the natural sciences have played a significant role in helping to establish the kind of dialogue that is productive. I will speak of the following four periods of history: (l) the rise of modern atheism in the 17th and 18th centuries; (2) anticlericalism in Europe in the 19th century; (3) the awakening within the Church to modern science in the first six decades of the 20th century; (4) the Church's view today which I would like to specify by a discussion of evolution which I now describe. Did we come about by chance or by necessity in the evolving universe? Did God make us? To what extent can the natural sciences address these questions? As to chance or necessity, it is both. Furthermore, there is a third element here that is very important and discovered by modern cosmology. It is what we might call the "fertility" of the universe. The universe is so fertile in offering the opportunity for the success of both chance and necessary processes that such a character of the universe must be included in the search for our origins. And for one who believes that God did it, this view of evolution reveals a great deal about the Creator. So, science can invigorate faith, where faith is open to it.'
