Posted: Sep 14, 2013 4:20 pm
iamthereforeithink wrote:Welcome to the forum! Quakerism is something that was probably a good idea in the 1600s. In 2013, not so much, IMO. Currently, there are better methods available to make sense of the Universe.
If you are talking about science as a way of exploring the universe then almost all Quakers embrace science. Remember that it was a Quaker (Sir Arthur Henry Eddington) who provided the empirical evidence to test and then support Einstein - against the British scientific community at the time who had difficulty accepting that a German, in times of great tension between our countries, could provide a better model for the universe than perhaps England's greatest ever scientist (Newton).
On the other side, it is true that few Quakers would see science as the only way to explore our universe and our place and values within that universe. As it is often said it is very hard to get directly from an 'is' to an 'ought'.