Archive | 2019
¿Están la ciencia y la fe en conflicto?. Depende de lo que se entienda por ‘conflicto’
Abstract
History of science shows that the Christian religion has not been in opposition or conflict with science, but rather in close collaboration and understanding. The principles on which Christianity is based and the divine attributes favor human knowledge and investigation of nature. In the nineteenth century and especially with the emergence of the Darwinian theory of evolution, the idea of conflict became entrenched in many academic environments. However, an epistemological analysis indicates that the conflict is not about the evidence that science and religion may present, or about the objects of study itself. There is no such conflict when faith and science are well understood, and for this we must be humble in both and recognize that we do not have all the necessary knowledge for the truth. But there is a conflict as to who has the authority over the truth, especially the final truth, that which goes beyond the material, and a conflict as to the existence or not of a purpose for nature and, in particular, of the human being.