Does scientific knowledge contradict religious belief? Francisco J. Ayala, Templeton Prize 2010

This years Templeton Prize winner is geneticist Francisco J. Ayala, who has worked tirelessly to defend scientific theory from the influence of religious belief while also calling for mutual respect between the two. Over the past thirty years he has sought to explain the difference between science and religion and asserting how both are undermined when mistakenly confused.

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[timothygmd]

Another atheist advocating NOMA - a million dollars for that ? It rather seems like a physician being bribed to defend smoking. This is wasted public relations money for a failed philosophy. The educated and intelligent tend to see right through this.

Religion is safe from contradiction only when it hides in nebulosity to the point of irrelevance. At that point, why bother ?

[fly44d]

I am sorry. Science has a lot to say about morals, values, relationships between people. Even the relationship between people and their perceived "creator". There is total and constant contradiction between science and religion. Religion will die out as people learn that the explanations for values, morals and relations are much more satisfying without the god stories. And he gets a bunch of money for this? Wow.

[yaozheng95]

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. - Einstein

[yaozheng95]

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Einstein

[fly44d]

@anonbigmetalfan You watch his video on "Why do humans behave ethically?" No god involved. Religion/culture and biological needs. No god.

[fly44d]

@anonbigmetalfan Science shows me that a creator is not necessary. All mysteries solved by science so far reveal no magic. None say "god did it." Many things in science, mostly in biology and psychology, are subjective and require strict controls to be studied and careful conclusions made. But it can be done. And it can be done with morals, ethics, and values. It has been done. No god required. There is no god in science because god doesn't exist.

[anonbigmetalfan]

@fly44d not really. how does science say anythign about a creator? anything that cannot be tested by the scientific method is not science. morals and values are completely, again COMPLETELY subjective. the objective ones (i assume you mean stuff like the rowboat dilemma) arise from pay-off for the parties involved, and is objective because its derived from math . bryan skyrms has some good works on that. however, there is no room for god in science

[anonbigmetalfan]

you've obviously never read his work. sit in on his classes. he teaches at UCI. you'll appreciate and better understand his work

[JoeyLambardi]

Please look up FunVax - its a government made virus that will end freedom as we know it.

[ivlfounder]

@fly44d

.....But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

PS Hitler was forming a religion around himself.

[fly44d]

@ivlfounder  Good bye. You are just babbling now.

[ivlfounder]

@fly44d

....Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval....