But in other areas, one would expect science to adapt to certain religious discoveries. For one example, there are getting to be scientifically valid studies that show that prayer has an effect on healing, even prayer which the person being prayed for has no knowledge of. What has science done to adapt its views to rhia discovery?
We were talking about cosmology, not science in general, and certainly not healing.
But since you brought it up, who says that the relationship between prayer and healing is a religious discovery? Meditation and stress reduction put the body in better shape to heal itself. Nothing inherently religious about that.
Why is that hard to understand?
This is why. I've posted this before. When I was a small child, my first conflict between my catechism and science was learning about evolution. It took me no time at all to reconcile the two by assuming the creation of the earth in seven days was figurative, even though I was much too young to know the word, figurative. End of problem. I find it hard to understand why, fifty years later and many years older, adults can't seem to figure out how to do the same thing.
So-called liberal religions seem to do what the article suggests. They complement the science by providing meaning rather than trying to compete with their own combination of meaning and second-rate science or railing against science. Yeah, I find that hard to understand.
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