Religious and Scientific Creation

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An analysis of the great questions that have beset the religious and scientific worlds as the last few centuries have seemingly brought about collision between the two. This is perhaps the greatest issue that faces modern debate in either religion or cosmology. This essay looks at the main questions at hand and the ramifications of the scientific theories currently in vogue. It considers them on an individual basis and precisely what they mean for individual Christian understandings of the model of the universe.

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"The question of the reconciliation of Christian and Scientific ideas of creation carries with it a number of significant implications and ideas which must be examined in some details before any kind of answer can be reached. The most obvious element of this is the question of what precisely is meant by a Christian concept of creation. This could easily be an idea as broad as the number of Christians. The fundamentalist creationist account is one idea but then anything which posits God as what might be called the cause of the universe is realistically a form of Christian concept of creation. The ultimate upshot of any examination of this issue, then, is that Christian creation is easily reconcilable with science because anything that science postulates could have happened could have been put in place by God. The main issue, then, in this examination, must be that of assessing the way, if at all, science allows the presence of a creator be it in the capacity of an inexplicable early event or the creator of the Genesis account. The answer to this question is that cosmology has been able to assemble a model of the universe which, broadly speaking, functions without need for a creator God. This in no way makes it impossible for Christianity to, as it were, add God on to the existing model but would suggest, although certainly not conclusively, a self-sufficient model of the universe which is likely to be free of the presence of a divine creator."

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