Have You Done The Needful?

[oblong]

Certain religions reject science because true science goes where the evidence takes you and faith, by definition, is not evidence based. Fundamentalists are trapped because they use absolutist theology from a book that’s not historical or scientific and contradicts itself.  
 

religion and science answer different questions. Science folks, rightly so, get bent out of shape when religious folks interject their non science “facts” into the discussion, like floods and creationism. “Well that can’t be true because of genesis”.   If science gets in the way of religious folks then that’s a problem for the religious to solve. 
 

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

religion and science answer different questions. Science folks, rightly so, get bent out of shape when religious folks interject their non science “facts” into the discussion, like floods and creationism. “Well that can’t be true because of genesis”.   If science gets in the way of religious folks then that’s a problem for the religious to solve. 
 

What always makes be laugh about creationists is that however creation came into being, if someone who was there and understood it had actually tried to explain it to a bunch of bronze age nomads, in the end they probably couldn't have done all that much better than Genesis. I mean, have these people ever given serious consideration to what would have happened if Moses had come down from Sinai with Quantum Theory and General Relativity on the tablets? It's just a complete lack of understanding of both the context and purpose of a creation narrative.

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[oblong]

42 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

What always makes be laugh about creationists is that however creation came into being, if someone who was there and understood it had actually tried to explain it to a bunch of bronze age nomads, in the end they probably couldn't have done all that much better than Genesis. I mean, have these people ever given serious consideration to what would have happened if Moses had come down from Sinai with Quantum Theory and General Relativity on the tablets? It's just a complete lack of understanding of both the context and purpose of a creation narrative.

Like reading and living by the standards of a technology book written in 1964 and believing thats the absolute truth. 
 

I come across a guy from the creation museum/ark museum in Kentucky who tries to explain science in their context. We’re all wrong, did you know that?