Is it difficult for a young person to enter modern church life? –Yes. But those who are everywhere looking only for lightness are not interested in either the Gospel or the Apocalypse. The young man who was afraid of our "grandmothers" will certainly not resist the "beast from the abyss"...

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Deacon Andrei Kuraev

Non-American missionary

Materials for the essay on the topic "Religion and Science"

Questions that lead away from stereotypes.- What is not in the Bible? - Asceticism and Science.- A Good Word about the Inquisition.- The Faith of Scientific Revolutionaries .

For a century and a half, secular schools have been growing cockroaches to plant them in the heads of students. One of the most well-fed cockroaches is the one that digs somewhere in the area of the left ear and with its whiskers irritates the neural circuit with the help of which a well-trained person repeats: "Science and Christian dogmatics are incompatible!! Science was born, overcoming the fierce resistance of church obscurantists! And only with the liberation of people from the shackles of medieval scholasticism was scientific thought born!"

This flow of words is so habitual (for it began its murmur in pre-revolutionary schools, thereby preparing the "great revolution") that there is no desire to believe in its seeming "harmony" with the help of "algebra" (that is, logic and history).

But even in these habitual clichés there is a grain of truth, which, if taken seriously, can free the mind from the spell of atheistic propaganda. This grain of truth is that science is indeed born as humanity emerges from the Middle Ages.

Well, now - questions.

The first is that if science is born in a certain era, does it mean that it has not always accompanied humanity? After all, man was always interested in the world around him. I always tried to get to know it. But the scientific way of knowing the world appeared not with the birth of man, but with the birth of science. This means that science is not just the desire to learn something about the world, but cognition with the help of certain methods. This means that there are several methods of human cognition of the world, and science is only one of them. This method is remarkably effective. But is it universal? Is it suitable for solving all the problems that arise when a person learns his place in the world?

The second question is: if science was born at a certain stage of the historical development of mankind, can it only be in conflict with the world that gave birth to it? Of course, at a certain moment the child makes an effort to get out of the mother's womb, and the mother makes an effort to push the child out of herself. But does this mean that the relationship between the child and his mother should be described only in terms of conflictology? If science was born at the exit from the world of the Middle Ages, it means that it was in this world that it was at least conceived and nurtured...