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To: Jaguar1942
"God did it" is not a scientific statement, it is a religious one.

I am glad to see you capitalize God - even if it is the first word in the sentence :-).

Religion becomes incompatible with science only if science presents facts that are incompatible with basic beliefs. The more we learn about our world, the less incompatible science and religion become.

Science and religion are incompatible in that anything the bible says, cannot be questioned on any evidence whatsoever, you have to take it on faith that it is true.

That statement is not entirely accurate. Bible contains basic truths that cannot be questioned (e.g., God created the Universe.) Most other things are open to interpretation. (This is not my idea. It was originally presented by Thomas Aquinas.)
498 posted on 08/17/2004 5:34:42 PM PDT by bluejay
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To: bluejay

Yes, I know of him, as well as others.....

The bible should not be questioned is the basic tenet of many fundamentalist Christian groups, it is to be taken literally in all aspects, which I find a little ridiculous, but that's me.

The literalist cannot handle scientific dealving into these questions, because it will take their literalism and turn it on it's head, and in the process hurt their faith in their bible.

Others do not take the book as literally, and take it as it relates to them, and what they need to know, they need something, they open the book and God relates to them directly through the bible what they need at that specific point in their lives, to them, the bible is a book of God's stories that he uses to relate directly with us on a personal level.

The first have real problems with science, the second have no problems with science, because it cannot question the bible directly because the bible was never meant to be literal in any sense of the word.

It all depends on how you look at the bible, is it a personal gate to your own personal relationship with God, or is it a book telling you how to live every aspect of your life?

With literalists, science and religion are not compatible, with the other, science and religion are one and the same thing. It's thier own personal journey in which God is leading them.

Have I straightened that out?


511 posted on 08/17/2004 5:52:26 PM PDT by Jaguar1942
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