“The Catholic Church Supports Science”

In my capacity as a highly-paid apologist (whose apologetic checks seem to have been lost in the mail for the past thirty years or so), I regularly encounter two distinct but related atheist claims about religion and science:

1.  Religious faith is incompatible with scientific reason, both as method and in terms of the substantial results.

2.  Religion has long been an enemy and an obstacle to science.

Both claims are, at point after point, demonstrably false.

Here, though, is a piece by two Jesuit scientists — one of them Dr. Guy Consolmagno, the Vatican astronomer, who’s scheduled to speak to an Interpreter Foundation conference on Mormonism and science in the spring of 2016 — arguing against Claim #2:

http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2014/12/12/the-catholic-church-supports-science-plus-9-more-things-you-should-know/35427

Posted from Monterey, California