@ARTICLE{Śledziewski_Ks._Sławomir_The_2009,
 author={Śledziewski, Ks. Sławomir},
 volume={Tom 4},
 pages={349-369},
 journal={Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2009},
 publisher={Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych},
 abstract={The article The Influence of the Bible on Civilization (The Bible and Natural Sciences) shows us the importance of the Holy Bible in relation to the forming of Western civilization. The Bible is at the foundation of the heritage of European civilization. Written down during the period of almost 1500 years, it contains truths that concern all fields of life, both on the individual and the social level. As a work of literature it had its role, together with the civilization of Ancient Greece, in the origins of sciences. Science and religion are two very important elements of human culture. All reflections on the subject of the genesis of the world have their roots in these two basic aspects of seeing reality. Everything that exists needs an explanation of its origin. Thus the basic question that gave the beginning to philosophy was the question of the human being about himself and about the Universe. The relation of the science of creation, originating from the biblical description showing God as giving existence to everything, came into conflict with the empirical description of the beginning of the Universe and man in it. The questions that Latin civilization took from Greek philosophy and Christianity, based on biblical foundations, were transformed during the course of history to a conflict between science and faith, which began with the Copernican revolution and the Galileo issue. It had its greatest inflammation in the 19th century, as the result of the discoveries in the field of bio- logy, mainly connected with the theory of evolution of C. Darwin. One of the basic aspects of this conflict is the question of the origin of the world, which issue is, so to say, a natural place of meeting of theology with natural sciences. This conflict began as a result of trying to discover the essence of God's message contained in the Bible, by natural sciences. This discovering was an interpretation of the inspired text in relation to the eternal truth and to cultural variables, and also to civilization frames.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={The Influence of the Bible on Civilization. The Bible and Natural Sciences},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/116931/PDF/Sledziewski%20(2).pdf},
 doi={10.24425/snt.2009.133816},
 keywords={Bible, civilization, creation, natural sciences, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galiei, Charles Darwin, faith, reason, religion, evolution theory},
}