CATHOLICISM TEACHES THAT GOD WORKS WITHIN YOU TO GIVE YOU FAITH AND
WHY THAT OPPOSES SCIENCE
Faith as in supernatural or unnatural gift cannot agree with science which sees
it as useless. It cannot be put on a par with science or above it. It cannot be
granted any importance. It is nothing compared to science which believes in
continual investigation and correction of errors. It is an intrinsic insult to
science.
The Church says that faith is a beautiful virtue where you affirm how good
and trustworthy God is. This by default calls science a non-virtue.
Already it is shoved into second place. As science is about testing and
learning that second place is actually no place.
Christianity is one of the few religions that says that it fits with science. It
says faith tries to fit but it is lying. The religions may not all teach that
faith is a gift and a virtue but they certainly do act as if it is. Actions
speak loudest. It is wise and safe to say that religion in general is not a
friend of science. The Christian who imagines that God commands us to love
science is only interested in science because God says so. But that is not being
scientific. It is being religious. To accept science means you accept it for it
is self-correcting and about checking everything out. To accept science because
of God is not accepting it for those reasons. It is only about acting scientific
but not being scientific at all. Science has to be accepted on principle - the
principle of being scientific.
Roman Catholicism officially teaches that faith matters more than reason. If
you have to get rid of one or the other it has to be reason. If science refutes
religion then you have to believe religion. Adam and Eve existed even though
their existence is proven false by DNA evidence.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1c3a1.htm
Faith and science: "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real
discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries
and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot
deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth." "Consequently, methodical
research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly
scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the
faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the
same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is
being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God,
the conserver of all things, who made them what they are."
This says that if reason contradicts faith you assume there is a solution though
you may think that getting it is impossible. In this way faith is put above
reason. It risks not seeing that there is a contradiction. It is arrogant to
assume that there can be no contradiction.
The less evidence you have that your faith makes sense and is true the worse the
faith is. The more outlandish the content of faith is the worse it is. The
evidence and the reasons for believing the big things such as God or Hell or
that Jesus is God deserve really intense and methodical scrutiny. And even more
so if it is true that you need to have the right views about them to get into
Heaven forever and keep out of eternal punishment.
If a view can be put out there without having sufficient evidence, it can be
dismissed without sufficient evidence.
If a view has no evidence at all, then nobody not even God has the right to
protest or complain if you assert a contrary view and have no evidence for it.