MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
Religion is like modern art to me. I don't get it but I know other people do.
Sorry that doesn't apply here, you weren't banned because you didn't insult other peoples viewpoints.Originally posted by Cecasander
Oh yeah freedom of speech (which is the )
Originally posted by Cecasander
I am an atheist, i believe in science and the big bang theory.
I disaprove capitalism and aprove socialism.
I don't like America.
Why aren't I banned from the forum yet?
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Oh yeah freedom of speech (which is the )
Originally posted by De Lorimier
I think it's time to call this thread a failure...
Originally posted by FearlessLeader2
I always chuckle when some hot-headed atheist takes a bunch of Bible quotes, and some of the populist trash that passes itself off as tenets of the Christian faith, and weaves it all into a tapestry that somehow proves that all religion is bad, because several dozen varieties of one religion are bad.
Science modifies itself to accomodate the observations that belie its theories, we know this, and the originator states it in his magum opus assault on faith. The many flavors of Christianity, Islam, Bhuddism, Taoism, Hinduism, etc... prove that religion is similar to science in this regard. Many people searching for answers about the universe.
In all honesty, I can no longer even understand the desire to contrast science and religion. The two are branches of study that are trying to answer two completely different questions. Religion asks: 'What are we supposed to do?' Science asks: 'How did we get here?' The two do not overlap in any significant arena of thought, and the insignificant areas where they do overlap are always grey areas in science.
Wasting time, as a faithful person, arguing about these inconsequential overlaps, is foolishness. One's time could be far better spent doing what one's faith tells one to do. As a result, one would be serving as an example of the peace and harmony a faithful life can enjoy and share with neighbors.
As a man of science, butting one's head against the walls of time and fragmentary evidence that are the glaring realities of the paleo-sciences (anthropology, evolutionary biology, etc...), should be dismissed out-of-hand as wastes of resources better spent on useful research like cleaner energy, eco-friendly farming, combatting urban sprawl, and maybe developing a way to move large groups of humans off-world and keeping them alive and thriving. Imagine how much more usefully Darwin's life could have been spent in the Industrial Age if he had been researching less polluting energy sources than the coal that practically deforested Europe in that time.
Someone explain to me how being both a peaceable man of faith, and a researcher of ways to make the world a cleaner, more efficient place, is in any way a bad thing. Please.