- The Two are Incompatible- While religion makes claims about the supernatural, science attacks the concept of supernatural. Science relies solely on facts and evidence, whereas religion is almost completely
- Science is Flexible, Religion is Not- When scientific theories are made, those espousing religious beliefs either: 1) hold firm and reject science, or 2) make concessions, thereby weakening the credibility of their own beliefs
- Religion Hates Science- Religion claims to know everything, the total antithesis of science. Every new fact discovered by science is a challenge to religion to fit into it's existing thoughts without changing anything. Unfortunately, most people in this forum are American, and this think religion means Christianity. It is possible to believe in God, but not religion, and this believe in God and science. But not religion and science.
- Science and religion talk about the same subjects, like the creation of the human race, for example. Religion explains that God created the earth and the human in merely 6 days (creationism) whereas science explains a series of mutations that created what we are today (evolution). How can anyone embrace both science and religion when there are two different explanations for the same thing.
- There's nothing wrong with faith and believing in a deity but religions have come and gone in the past and will likely happen in the future. The only difference between now and then is that religions usually went extinct when the nation that worshipped it was conquered by a much stronger one with their own beliefs, subjugating the conquered land and it's people to it's laws and its faith were as now we have science slowly revealing what use to be mysteries.
- Religion was and is a primitive way to explain the unexplainable with a simple, easy-to-comprehend, supernatural answer. Science looks at the unexplained and tries to find a real, definitive, provable answer, rather than an answer that makes one feel happy and euphoric. Saying that religion and science can coexist is like saying violent instigation and pacifism can coexist. The two simply contradict each other to their very fundamentals.
1 Comment
|
AuthorHugh Jass...how old? Old enough. ArchivesCategories |