Reconciling Science and Faith

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New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a marked divide between science and religion. Some people can balance the two in their lives, such as astronomer Allan Sandage, who discovered the first quasar and determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe. In response to the question "Can a person be a scientist and also a Christian?" he answered: "Yes. The world is too complicated in all its parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together." More recently that same, still-popular view has been expressed in fiction via the scientist Kala from the Netflix show Sense8, who said, "Science doesn’t preclude my faith. For me, science is another language we use to talk about the same miracles that faith talks about." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BILL NYE Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life.

Published 2011-05-20 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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