Science has provided useful information for the manipulation of our physical world to provide creature comforts. It has done NOTHING to address the real issues with which all of us as human beings, grapple on a daily basis.
It is totally useless in addressing the problem of pain, healing relationships, providing significance and meaning to life, answering questions of why we’re here and where we’re going when we die.
It’s totally inadequate to address the real issues that give life real meaning. The only really important things in life the those things which cannot be seen, which are the supernatural, which are the true reality and the only things that give life any significance and real meaning.
To try to elevate to the place of God and scorn those who don’t agree with that position to which science has been raised, it the height of hubris.
Science is a TOOL, a useful tool at that, but not a means to an end and not an end in and of itself. Science cannot meet the basic human needs.
“Science” is another one of those conflated terms, like “evolution” that has been extrapolated to mean something that it does not.
The basic argument you get is that if you reject their historical claims of origins and age, you must also reject the advances that “working” science provides in our modern lives.
That’s like saying if you reject arson, then you must reject heating your home in winter.
Well, Metmom, I simply can not agree with such a blanket statement. Science has been the impetus for so many many improvements that are easy to take for granted.
Health knowledge [including chiropractic, drugs, vaccines, and surgical improvements] is probably foremost and at the other end is the advances in communications that allow us to share so much so freely with most of the civilized world. I look forward to meeting you and many freepers someday - maybe in the here and now but most definitely in Heaven. and I expect in Heaven we’ll truly see the weight and impact of all our good deeds and even our prayers.
God Bless for all my friends and foes!!!
This bears repeating:
“Science has provided useful information for the manipulation of our physical world to provide creature comforts. It has done NOTHING to address the real issues with which all of us as human beings, grapple on a daily basis.
It is totally useless in addressing the problem of pain, healing relationships, providing significance and meaning to life, answering questions of why we’re here and where we’re going when we die.
It’s totally inadequate to address the real issues that give life real meaning. The only really important things in life the those things which cannot be seen, which are the supernatural, which are the true reality and the only things that give life any significance and real meaning.
To try to elevate to the place of God and scorn those who don’t agree with that position to which science has been raised, it the height of hubris.
Science is a TOOL, a useful tool at that, but not a means to an end and not an end in and of itself. Science cannot meet the basic human needs.”