Science and G.K. Chesterton
Science and G.K. Chesterton
At the very beginning of the Bible, Genesis 1:27 states that "...God created man in his own image, in the image of god he created them". Recently there have been many objections to this idea of creation, the most important example of course being Darwins theory of evolution through natural selection, which obviously takes the claim that humans were created independently without the intervention of Christ; an indirect attempt to point out that "God is dead, that the belief in the Christian god has become unworthy of belief"(Nietzsche 392), but this is not true, we do not have the right to question the power of god, to have faith is to believe without evidence, if we trust in the theory of evolution, we really don 't have anything to put our faith in. Through the writings of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, we can help unveil the unreliability of science because of its boundaries and limitations, see that it is illogical to take a scientific perspective on philosophy, and reveal how the progress of science takes away value and purpose in ones life.
Since Chesterton was a very religious man, he didn 't like the idea of taking a scientific perspective to things that were obviously a creation of god. He thought it was absurd to try and make sense of gods authority over mankind by questioning it with data and theories all because they were either too stubborn to put faith in a higher power, wanted to feel the security of having a scientifically explained world, or they just opposed religion all together and needed to find ways they could control what was going on instead of god. " A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith" (G.K. Chesterton 220). Chesterton reveals through his writings that science is not completely reliable because it consists of so many limitations, to show this he compares
At the very beginning of the Bible, Genesis 1:27 states that "...God created man in his own image, in the image of god he created them". Recently there have been many objections to this idea of creation, the most important example of course being Darwins theory of evolution through natural selection, which obviously takes the claim that humans were created independently without the intervention of Christ; an indirect attempt to point out that "God is dead, that the belief in the Christian god has become unworthy of belief"(Nietzsche 392), but this is not true, we do not have the right to question the power of god, to have faith is to believe without evidence, if we trust in the theory of evolution, we really don 't have anything to put our faith in. Through the writings of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, we can help unveil the unreliability of science because of its boundaries and limitations, see that it is illogical to take a scientific perspective on philosophy, and reveal how the progress of science takes away value and purpose in ones life.
Since Chesterton was a very religious man, he didn 't like the idea of taking a scientific perspective to things that were obviously a creation of god. He thought it was absurd to try and make sense of gods authority over mankind by questioning it with data and theories all because they were either too stubborn to put faith in a higher power, wanted to feel the security of having a scientifically explained world, or they just opposed religion all together and needed to find ways they could control what was going on instead of god. " A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith" (G.K. Chesterton 220). Chesterton reveals through his writings that science is not completely reliable because it consists of so many limitations, to show this he compares
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