Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - God and Research Autonomy

You are very right!  Today science is the religion which cannot be wrong although its boundaries paradoxically shift  with new challenges.  

However before the success of each new challenge the zeitgeist is the inviolate orthodoxy.

Isaac Newton was reported to have stated in the course of propounding the Laws of Motion that if God existed he must surely be a mathematician.

Yes! God can never be taken out of the equation of science until the secret of the whole multiverse (not just our own universe) with contra-universal laws that do not obey Newtonian and Einsteinian formulations is unravelled.

It is not surprising that extant religious leaders such as Ifa priests also double as scientific researchers.

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From: 'O O' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>

Date: 07/05/2017 10:25 (GMT+00:00)

To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - God and Research Autonomy

No knowledge, even scientific knowledge, is entirely impersonal, and to hold this position suggests neither being anti-science nor being anti-God or pro-God. Many of the greatest scientists or sharpest minds have in some way or other been believers in God; similarly, many of the best scientists or minds have rejected any belief in God. In other words, belief or non-belief in God is not a measure of intelligence or stupidity. As long as humans are unable to answer conclusively or decisively two simple questions -- where are we coming from? where are we going? -- it would be dogmatic to be dismissive of belief or non-belief in God. 

PS: one irony -- those who are dismissive of religion tend to make the mistake of turning science into scientism which is itself a religion.

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Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

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