Saturday, June 1, 2019

Innocent Religion Essay -- Religion, Moses, God

Science and technology have been regarded by many pile as the Moses who leads human out of the world of ignorance to the land of knowledge and wealth. Religion, in the other respect, has unfortunately been misinterpreted as the evil Pharaoh who wants to keep human under his slavery. Some people thought the scientific Revolution in the 17th century as the Exodus of science from the tyranny of religion. For instance, they believe that if Newton did not waste his snip on the search for God, he probably would have made much more contribution to science. Dong Jin, one of the writer for Digest of Science and engineering thought Newton was controlled by a wrong philosophy and fall into the abyss of idealism and theism1 Dong Jin, Digest of Science and Technology, September 2000 1 and considered Newtons attempts to find take the stand for existence of God is so absurd and tragic.1 Surprisingly, quite a number of people share Dong Jins unfair view of religion. In their views, Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon are also victims of ghostlike belief. However, few of these accusations are true. In the time of Scientific Revolution, religious belief rarely acted as its preventer. Sometimes, religion even played a imperious role in the construction of new science and philosophy. Newton is a remarkable figure in the period of scientific revolution. His discovery of general binominal expansion in 1664 and publication of the concept of Calculus in Principia in 1687 introduced handy mathematical tools to modern science. His light decomposition experiment with prism and state work in Classical mechanics had greatly changed peoples view of nature. His work generated a large crowd of followers known as Newtonians. His thoughts an... ...s kind of conflicts in 17th century happened very often. Natural phylosophers criticisms suppressed the work of experimental scientists. As far as I am concerned, the discrepancy between subjective philosophers and experimental scientists was a heavier shackle then religion on science. Although religion had some controversy with science, like their disagreement on the issue of embryonic base cell researches, it did not create a lot of obstacles in the time of the Scientific Revolution. During the process of unveiling the secret of nature, science and religion leave behind surely have some argument due to their different opinion in the interpretation of phenomena. Since the wide-spread religious belief didnt kill those great figures in the Scientific Revolution. we should claim religions innocence in that period and criticize its role in a more rational and complete.

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