Biology is a (natural) science: it has living nature as an object of study. In doing so, it is ‘fed’ by physical (physical) and chemical (chemical) insights, uses mathematics and formal logic, comes into contact with geology and touches on the human sciences in humans.
All of that is based on certain philosophical principles, such as the intelligibility of the natural order (the ability to be understood by intelligent beings such as man), the reliability of our perception and our mind, the correctness of logical and mathematical thinking, the existence of an order in reality and of natural laws. Biology thus touches on philosophy, which also questions the possible existing ‘supernatural’ order, that which ‘transcends’ visible and measurable reality (transcendence, versus immanence). Such as the question of why there is ‘something’ at all and not ‘nothing’. And what the first cause of all that is. Or where the order and purpose of nature comes from. Or the intelligibility of nature that betrays an intelligent designer. In this way one can come to the rational conclusion of the existence of God, the first cause that is also the target cause of the natural order and has created the natural order ‘out of (physical) nothingness’.
Theology studies that which mankind has experienced in the self-revelation of God and has recorded in the Holy Scriptures and in the entire Judeo-Christian tradition, for Catholics more specifically the ‘Tradition of the Church’, a Church that also speaks ‘doctrinally’ about it and claims to speak ‘the truth’ – when it comes to it – infallibly about ‘faith and morality’ (not about natural sciences!).
- Biology
- Philosophy
- Theology
Some of the main topics we discuss on this site are
- Evolution & creation
- Life in the cosmos
- Life and death
- The Reasonableness of Faith
- The Existence of God
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- As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, we refer here to a special page of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, located in the Vatican in Rome.
- In the Netherlands, from Reformation circles, the website Faith and Science is interesting to follow. They also have a Facebook group with plenty of opportunity for discussion.
- Also take a look at the page Theology (in the making)
- Go to the blog posts about science and faith that can be found on this website
- Relics
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