How can understanding astronomy and physics, or the biochemistry of our bodies, or the workings of molecular genetics, or any other field of natural and physical science do anything other than glorify the Creator and His logic?
Yes what Tele said.. ty..
It is amazing how secular teachers can make all this dry and dull as a bone. But then without God. . . History becomes dull, recording useless works, instead of the history of the saints..
Devotion and God should be fundamental to all studies, even the most naturally seemingly dry, such as mathematics.. wherein one can appreciate the perfection of God's design..
That said, subjects other than religious are, weighted against learning about religious matters, in that light unimportant. After all.. one's salvation, and after that one's place in Heaven forever, are most fundamentally determined by such direct study of God... the secular studies may reflect a particular vocation, and so follow.. but they are nevertheless, hardly the same..
So, like this..
'Happy the man to whom God has given the science of the saints. [Sap. x. 10.] Oh, how sublime the science which teaches us to know how to love God and to save our souls! Happy, says St. Augustine, is the man "who knows God, although he is ignorant of other things." They who know God, the love which he merits, and how to love him, stand not in need of any other knowledge. They are wiser than those who are masters of many sciences, but know not how to love God.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'Human affairs are fainter than a shadow; more deceitful than a dream. Youth fades more quickly than the flowers of spring; our beauty wastes with age or sickness. Riches are uncertain; glory is fickle. The pursuit of arts and sciences is bounded by the present life; the charm of eloquence, which all covet, reaches but the ear: whereas the practice of virtue is a precious possession for its owner, a delightful spectacle for all who witness it. Make this your study; so will you be worthy of the good things promised by the Lord.'
St. Basil the Great
'Men always seek to advance in, the knowledge of their secular profession, but are satiated with the mere rudiments of the science of the saints. In all their worldly pursuits, men are never satiated; but in virtue it is sufficient for them to have made a beginning.'
St. Jerome