The Catholic Church has always embraced and promoted what is good and what is true.
What science reveals to us is easily in line with matters of our faith and the teaching of the Church.
Many Catholic scientists have contributed to, and continue to contribute to, our understanding of the world around us. Some of the most important and well-known scientists of all time were Catholic.
Catholics should not resist learning basic scientific principles or understanding how science can benefit humanity and give glory to God at the same time.
Science and religion ask different questions and look for different answers.
For it is He who gave me unerring knowledge of what exists, to know the structure of the world and the activity of the elements.
Wisdom 7: 17
Science and faith are compatible:
The Catholic Church has always supported science:
Created in God’s image and called to know and love him, the person who seeks God discovers certain ways of coming to know him. These are also called proofs for the existence of God, not in the sense of proofs in the natural sciences, but rather in the sense of “converging and convincing arguments”, which allow us to attain certainty about the truth. These “ways” of approaching God from creation have a twofold point of departure: the physical world, and the human person.
Catechism of the Catholic Church 31
God exists outside of what science can observe:
Seeing things in a bigger light:
Science, however, while giving generously, gives only what it is meant to give. Man cannot place in science and technology so radical and unconditional a trust as to believe that scientific and technological progress can explain everything and completely fulfill all his existential and spiritual needs. Science cannot replace philosophy and revelation by giving an exhaustive answer to man’s most radical questions: questions about the meaning of living and dying, about ultimate values, and about the nature of progress itself.
Pope Benedict XVI, Address to Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, November 6, 2006
Science and faith can work together to explain the awesomeness of God:
Science cannot disprove the existence of God:
The Truth, Goodness, and Beauty of the Catholic Church
Bringing God’s mercy to the mountains:
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