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Over the last 400 years, science has had a dramatic impact on the Christian concept of God. A lot of the traditional Church views have been challenged by science’s entry into the world. ... However, since science has been challenging the traditional religious positions of Christianity there has been a problem. ... (Corsi, 1988) The sum total of these ideas composed a view held by Christians until the 16th and 17th centuries AD, a view shattered by science’s entry into society.
Challenging Traditional Viewpoints
Scientific development started to question the authority of religion, especially Christianity. To an increasing number of Christians, mathematics and science started to become more important than the theism of the Bible. (Mott, 1991) The first major conflict between Christianity and science occurred in 1643, with the publication of the theories of Nicolas Copernicus. ... Discoveries headed by three men in the 17th century – Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton – convinced people that science, not religion, had a place in the world of the future. ... (Moreland, 1990) Science is still unable to explain certain aspects about the way God works, such as what started the development of the universe, and many people have been able to explain this by using the influence of God. ... (
However, a minority of Fundamentalist Christians have refused to accept science as they have found it totally incompatible with their faith. ... ” (Schaeffer, 2002) Thomas Berry, a well-known theologian and scientist, believes that Christianity, if it is to remain relevant in the modern world, needs to place itself within the context of science’s new stories on the origin of humans and the evolution of the universe. ... (Drees, 1996) People have realised that science has not brought peace, that science has not brought peace of mind and that science has not solved problems in the world.
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