(July 30, 2015 at 12:57 am)Alex K Wrote: One is a legitimate field of study, one is not. Theology fails as a scientific discipline, and is lacklustre as a philosophical one.
Theology is not philosophy. You may have been misled by the fact that many theologians use philosophical arguments (typically, malformed ones) for various purposes. However, some theologians use tales of quantum mechanics for various purposes, too (and that are likewise typically malformed), and that does not make theology a science either.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.