Can science influence worldviews?
A page about the compatibility of science and religion asks, “If you learn and use science, will this weaken your faith?”, and examines relationships between science and religion, natural process, miracles, and scientism. In the next four sections (through Science and Scientism) are excerpts: Science and Religion (at war?) Painting a picture of “warfare” between science and religion is colorful and dramatic, and is appealing for many people, but is oversimplistic and inaccurate. It does not accurately describe what really happened, and is rejected by modern historians such as David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, who say: “The encounter between Christianity and science… is a complex and diverse interaction that defies reduction to simple ‘conflict’ or ‘harmony’ …[and] the interaction varied with time, place, and person.” Science and Natural Process In a Christian worldview, “natural” does not mean “without God” because God designed and created natural process, continually sustains its
