tag name: Science and religion, harmony of type: Principles, teachings; Religion, general; Science: natural, social, and applied web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Science_and_religion,_harmony_of variations or mis-spellings: harmony of reason and faith related tags: – Concepts, Religious; – Concepts, Religious; Advancement of civilization; Barriers; Necessary relationships of the realities of things referring tags: Evolution Inventory subject: Harmony of science and religion notes: "... The third Tajallí is concerning arts, crafts and sciences. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words. Great indeed is the claim of scientists and craftsmen on the peoples of the world..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Tajallíyát (Effulgences), ¶15
"... The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation. Meditate on this, O people, and be not of them that wander distraught in the wilderness of error...."
– Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLXIV
"The first sign of the coming of age of humanity referred to in the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh is the emergence of a science which is described as that “divine philosophy” which will include the discovery of a radical approach to the transmutation of elements. This is an indication of the splendors of the future stupendous expansion of knowledge..."
– Kitáb-i-Aqdas, note 194. See also Signs for the Coming of Age of the Human Race (Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶189)
"The third teaching or principle of Bahá’u’lláh is that religion and science are in complete agreement. Every religion which is not in accordance with established science is superstition. Religion must be reasonable. If it does not square with reason, it is superstition and without foundation..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, talk on 25 April 1912
"... It has become customary in the West to think of science and religion as occupying two distinct—and even opposed—areas of human thought and activity. This dichotomy can be characterized in the pairs of antitheses: faith and reason; value and fact. It is a dichotomy which is foreign to Bahá’í thought and should, we feel, be regarded with suspicion by Bahá’í scholars in every field. The principle of the harmony of science and religion means not only that religious teachings should be studied with the light of reason and evidence as well as of faith and inspiration, but also that everything in this creation, all aspects of human life and knowledge, should be studied in the light of revelation as well as in that of purely rational investigation..."
– Universal House of Justice, letter dated 3 January 1979, to the participants in the Bahá’í Studies Seminar held in Cambridge on 30 September and 1 October 1978
See also:
Bahai.org:
– Science and Religion
– Faith and Reason– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í Sacred Writings, chapter 12, section "The Harmony of Science and Religion"
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baháʼí_views_on_science; bahaipedia.org/Science#Harmony_between_science_and_religion; bahai9.com/wiki/Harmony_of_science_and_religion; bahaiquotes.com/subject/harmony-science-and-religion; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Science religion
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