RE: What's up with creationism?
January 16, 2016 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2016 at 4:31 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Any system of make belief that is willing to make minor alterations to accommodate overwhelming pressure of evidence in order to perpetuate itself can always be made to seem compatible with science.
But this compatibility is superficial because although on the surface, they may for a while appear to avoid arguments over points of fact, fundamentally they purposes are diametrically the opposite.
Science is ultimately about dispelling the make belief, so as to inform belief with facts. Catholicism, or any shade of Christianity, or Islam, is about perpetuating its own make belief as much as it can get away with, so as to influence people's minds with groundless bullshit as much as it can get away with. That some sects may make tactical concessions on facts which it previously long denied does not in any way alter what the aim of the existence of the cults of Jesus or Muhammad had always been
Eventually, this conflict will come to a head, because either Catholicism must resign itself to dying, or it must resist further progress in science.
But this compatibility is superficial because although on the surface, they may for a while appear to avoid arguments over points of fact, fundamentally they purposes are diametrically the opposite.
Science is ultimately about dispelling the make belief, so as to inform belief with facts. Catholicism, or any shade of Christianity, or Islam, is about perpetuating its own make belief as much as it can get away with, so as to influence people's minds with groundless bullshit as much as it can get away with. That some sects may make tactical concessions on facts which it previously long denied does not in any way alter what the aim of the existence of the cults of Jesus or Muhammad had always been
Eventually, this conflict will come to a head, because either Catholicism must resign itself to dying, or it must resist further progress in science.
