january:
i wont respond to your so called rebuttal since it's a shameless
attempt to distract from the original topic.
but in your other reply, u seem to be one of those doofus who
imagine: because evolution is true, therefore God doesn't exist.
Mind enlightening me how does evolution theory prove God's nonexistence?
Because there've been people (e.g. Simon Conway Morris and Ronald
Fisher) who have no problem believing both.
now in your reply to me, first up, science and religion don't
make these claims, people do. Science, pursued humbly and
rationally, doesnt cause its practitioners to declare that God
doesnt exist, BUT atheist fundamentalists who have no other way to
pursue their agenda do so. They carry their atheistic assumptions
to science, instead of basing them upon it.
about your delirious reference to "religions", i've no idea
which ones you're writing about since you've neglected to make
specific references. But as i said earlier, there's no conflict
between religion (at least for Christianity) and science. I've
mentioned some people who faithfully pursue the discipline of
science and are still theists.
To the person who used Galileo as an example, just demonstrated
that the simplistic belief that religion clashes with science is an
idea that languishes in academic backwater, and probably suspension
in time. It was a conflict between Copernican science and
Aristotelian science which had become Church tradition, not science
versus religion.
Like Herzog, if you believe science to be an attempt to discover
the workings of the physical world, and that the truth remains out
there (probably forever), at best, from your worldview, science
should always remain a question mark and not qualify you to make
unncessary conclusions. To make this jump from the question mark to
a claim of refutation, you're taking a leap of faith - the
very thing i suspect you're accusing theists of.
In fact, the belief that science will eventually discover the
"truth" and find all answers, is a claim of faith in itself.
Consider the biblical definition of faith - "Now faith is the
assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not
seen." (Hebrews 11:1, ESV)
