The Great Dialogue

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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22972610 Dr Schmoyer

http://www.pewforum.org/Religion-News/RNS-Report-US-churches-continue-growth-decline-trends.aspx

From the Writer's Almanac for June 19th http://app.info.americanpublicmediagroup.org/e/es?s=1715082578&e=20992&elq=78595e5b7b8b4154b41e17707fb84b13 It's the birthday  of mathematician, physicist, and theologian Blaise Pascal  ( books by this author ), born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (1623). A child prodigy, by the time he was 19 he had already perfected the first mechanical calculator for sale to the public. In the field of physics, he discovered that air has weight, and he conducted experiments to prove that vacuums could exist, which led him to formulate the hydraulic principle that "pressure exerted on a fluid in a closed vessel is transmitted unchanged throughout the fluid." This principle is used today in devices such as syringes, hydraulic presses, automobile brakes, and aircraft controls. In mathematics, he founded the theory of probabilities and developed an early form of integral calculus. He spent much of his life in conflict between science and

David Moyer Posted:      I am a Christian Engineer/Scientist and I have no problem with conflicts between the facts of science (as opposed to some hypotheses of science) and the teachings of scripture. I know literally dozens of other engineers and people with doctorates in technical fields including medicine, veterinary medicine, biology, etc. who also see no conflict. I was once a staunch evolutionist and I could easily teach a high school or community college course on evolution. There are some aspects of evolutionary theory/hypotheses with which I have no quarrel. But nearly the entire field is a matter of hypotheses with very little of it proven by the scientific method, because so little of it is falsifiable. It certainly does not deserve to be classified as a theory- that is a hypothesis that has been tests by real scientific methods so often that almost no one can devise another test that might disprove it. Remember, that scientific hypotheses are not proven, but rather

I must confess, I see no necessary argument between science and Christianity...But here is where one difficulty resides;  in the Bible, in the  2nd book of Peter, chapter 3, it says this: 1  Dear friends,  this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders  to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.  2  I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets  and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.   3  First of all, you must understand that in the last days  scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.   4  They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised?  Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."   5  But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word  the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.   6  By these waters also the world of that time  was deluged and destroyed.   7  By th