QUOTATION: The Limits of Science

Though unscientific thought may be inferior by scientific standards, science itself can’t prove whether or not there are other standards by which other kinds of thought might be superior.

--Peter Kreeft, Letters to an Atheist,  2014

QUOTATION: Science Does Not Disprove the Supernatural

How could science, which validly explores the physical universe and only the physical universe, possibly prove either that there is or that there is not something else real besides the physical universe? It has no data beyond scientific data. It can’t, by its very nature. Saying there are no souls “science sees no souls” is like saying there can be no souls because souls do not leave fossils or emit radiation. It’s a really simple point: How could a fish whose experience is confined to its fishbowl know  whether there’s world outside the fishbowl?

--Peter Kreeft, Letters to an Atheist, 2014

QUOTATION: Religion and Science

The collaboration between religion and modern science is to the advantage of both, without violating their respective autonomy in any way. Just as religion demands religious freedom, so science rightly claims freedom of research.

--Pope St. John Paul II

QUOTATION: Religion and Science

When there is an apparent conflict between science and religion it is either because of bad science or bad religion, or both.

--Father Robert Barron

QUOTATION: Christianity and Science

Christianity, by emphasizing discipline, reason, and the value of nature as such, became the rock on which empirical science was founded. Science arose and could arise only in a Christian civilization. The East, lacking this foundation, never became scientific. Science is not inimical to a Christian civilization, for it has flourished only in a Christian civilization. It has not flourished in a Buddhist civilization, nor amongst the Mohammedans, for the reason that a pantheistic civilization that confuses God and the world can never get hold of the world alone to study it scientifically. The Christian conception, on the contrary, makes God and the world distinct, and therefore make it possible for a man to study the universe as the universe. In doing this, man follows out the injunction of the Creator, Who commanded man to rule over the earth and subject it. 

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Old Errors and New Labels

QUOTATION: Science and Religion

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

--Pope John Paul II