RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 19, 2016 at 10:21 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2016 at 10:23 am by Cyberman.)
According to the Latin root word for religion, apple sauce is the most successful religion. So what stops people from regarding it as one?
Oh that's right; there are other defining characteristics:
Tie at least some of those into the religion of science - or apple sauce - and then we can talk.
Oh that's right; there are other defining characteristics:
Quote:2. Characteristics of Religion
These are the common characteristics or family traits of those members of the category or “family” of religion. Just as with family members not every member must have every trait but most have most of the traits. The more any human phenomena demonstrates these traits the more likely it is that it will be included into this category of social institutions known as religion.
Common Characteristics: (family traits)
- notion of a deity or absolute, that which is of ultimate concern and importance
- ideas on the nature of human beings
- the idea of divine providence, destiny, fate
- the idea and meaning of human history
- problem of evil explained
- description of the central problem of human life and suffering idea of an afterlife-life after death
- a concept of the world
- ideas of human community and ethics-a moral code
The more any phenomena displays the characteristics above, it is likely to be accepted as a religion. The fewer the features demonstrated, the less likely it will be termed a religion. It might be termed magic, or sorcery, cult or some other description but not as a full fledged religion.
Tie at least some of those into the religion of science - or apple sauce - and then we can talk.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'