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Science Wins!
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methylatedghosts
Can't brain. Has dumb.
this sounds like an attempt to start a bout of fisticuffs!!!
*puts on boxing gloves*
righto, I'm ready. Are you?
*puts on boxing gloves*
righto, I'm ready. Are you?
Do you honestly believe that sentence is coherent?
tomspug
Absorbant
Religion isn't in a battle with science, it's trying to recover from a failure to DIALOGUE with science for nearly a century. Scientists started the fight back in the late 19th century, saying that religion and science WERE enemies, and religion believed them.
What we're seeing now is the church desperately trying to catch up to relevance in our modern society with efforts like Intelligent Design. Well, at least some dialogue is better than none.
But the idea that science and religion are fighting is a myth. One might attack the other, (and they do!) but science has actually HELPED religion by de-fogging the myth on one hand and on the other hand AFFIRMING what religion has gotten right!
What we're seeing now is the church desperately trying to catch up to relevance in our modern society with efforts like Intelligent Design. Well, at least some dialogue is better than none.
But the idea that science and religion are fighting is a myth. One might attack the other, (and they do!) but science has actually HELPED religion by de-fogging the myth on one hand and on the other hand AFFIRMING what religion has gotten right!
Luminous
non-existential luminary
No. Science started out figuring the true way of the world and religion did not want to believe it, for it thought itself all-knowing. and now that religion is loosing its hosts it is fighting back by devolving itself as much as it can, showign how compatible it is and how much it can help its hosts in some ways. religion is but a parazite and science is an allergic reaction to ignorance(or lack of understanding).
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tomspug
Absorbant
OK then!
Luminous
non-existential luminary
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
Actually science started out as a religious/philosophical venture.
It only comes in conflict with dogmatic literalists who are threatened by things that upset their house of cards.
wa:do
It only comes in conflict with dogmatic literalists who are threatened by things that upset their house of cards.
wa:do
Luminous
non-existential luminary
true that!
Luminous
non-existential luminary
true that. thought alot of people
Why would science and religion even need to fight? They are 2, unrelated, separate things. Since I believe that, I also believe that you can embrace both science and religion. And a person can be both a theist and a scientist- if the he/she chooses.
I think the problem comes when religions focus too much on their mythology. Science has disproven pretty much all mythologies.
But religion isn't just mythology; and I've seen both scientists and religious people who think it is. Science has nothing to do with philosophy, which I believe to be the heart of religion.
But religion isn't just mythology; and I've seen both scientists and religious people who think it is. Science has nothing to do with philosophy, which I believe to be the heart of religion.
Naturalist_Atheist
Uh.... Pootie Tang.
Just because something is a myth does not mean it's untrue. God is correctly defined as a myth. Even though a lot of people take offense to it. Doesn't mean to say God isn't real.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
Science does support certain religions/religious beliefs... There is no war... There never was a war and there will never will be.
Unless South Park is true!
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
It is not that simple. Myths are not to be taken seriously,, as myths. Myths may have a story/moral behind them. Sometimes it is not made clear what is to be taken from a myth, nevertheless, in a lot of cases it seems obvious.
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
Right... Myths were not "disproved" unless we're talking about a specific, literal interpretation. Many now realize that the value of mythology is its underlying truth beyond naive literal realism.
I have to admit, though, that I find mythology much harder from which to distill truth, because I tend to get caught up in the details (mythological overhead) and miss the message. I prefer to get my messages without all the stories, but that's just my own limited learning style.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
Us humans (wait, im a penguin) tend to do over-analyse something, even when the real mesage is staring at us right in out face.