He's not my role model.
What Luther thought or did not think about science has nothing to do with the advancement of science around the world. Now, the Roman Catholic church is a different story because they had the power.
What's even more ridiculous is that from the very beginning of Creation, man was given dominion over the Earth, to subdue and explore it.
As David said, "The heavens declare the glory of God, the earth displays His handiwork".
This bone-headed notion by atheists that scientific exploration and inquire MANDATE the rejection of faith and belief in a Creator is utterly ridiculous and has been proven false more times than the law allows.
As I stated earlier, this foolish tripe is a prime example of the utter falsehood, mentioned by atheists, regarding scientific exploraiton
Unfortunately, Christian church authorities and Christian political leaders today, continue to place barriers against science. Many fundamentalist Christians reject modern biology, geology, and physics. Many deny global warming, birth control, stem cell research and other scientific advances that could save millions of people, if not the entire human race. It shouldn't surprise anyone that George W. Bush's administration which kowtows to the Religious Right has reduced scientific research in place of faith based initiatives. Many fundamentalist Christians want to eliminate Darwin's theory of evolution and replace it with theological Creationism. Some have even succeeded in using political means to change school boards across America to ban evolution from biology books and to teach Intelligent Design (an oxymoronic euphemism for Creationism) in its place.Exactly how do Christians reject modern biology, physics, and geology, especially with a number of scientists in these arenas are Christians themselves? And, as I said earlier, with regards to the stem-cell research thing, this comment is a BLATANT LIE. Christians support all forms of stem cell research, EXCEPT ONE (the one that hasn't cure a darn thing, embryonic stem cell research). To top it all off, in this silly attempt to blast President Bush, Walker forgets that it was President Bush who actually gave FEDERAL FUNDING to stem cell research, excluding the embryonic type.
Furthermore, I've heard of NO Christians that demanded the elmination of the teaching of evolution. What the demand has been is to discuss Creation and put the evidence supporting BOTH, head to head, and let the chips fall where they may. Even "Answers In Genesis", one of the biggest Creationist groups in the world, has made it clear that it DOES NOT want to mandate Creation teaching in public school.
On the contrary, it's the atheists, who are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO confident that there is no God, that some of them want to deny college credit to students who took science classes from Christians schools. Others want to actually strip or deny qualified scientists of their Ph.Ds, becaus they believe in Creation (see Dr. Kurt Wise, for example). This seems like paranoia to me.
As stated, when I posted the words of Dr. George Wald, this issue is more about philosophy, NOT science. It was out of "philosophical neccesity" that Wald and evolutionists of his time (and perhaps of more recent times) believed in spontaneous generation, DESPITE the lack of evidence for such. For not to do so would leave them little choice but to concede that the origin of life (an issue that always arises, no matter how much atheists try to dodge it) has a supernatural cause, therefore a supernatural entity to whom they must be held accountable.