RE: Do you think Science and Religion can co-exist in a society?
May 30, 2017 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2017 at 10:55 am by FatAndFaithless.)
I mean, given that religions have and do make assertions about reality, when science can investigate those assertions there is a necessary conflict. Age of the earth, for example. It's "possible" for science and religion to coexist if the religious claims are all supernatural, unfalsifiable, and untestable, but I still wouldn't call that a good thing.
Like if you profess your belief in a deistic god, but also accept the scientific method and its findings...there's nothing I can really say as far as a "conflict" because the claims don't overlap - one is just unsubstantiated. But if you claimed that the world is 6000 years old, your faith gives you immunity to snake venom, or you can cure homosexuality with prayer... well we can investigate all of those claims, and a conflict sure as shit exists.
Like if you profess your belief in a deistic god, but also accept the scientific method and its findings...there's nothing I can really say as far as a "conflict" because the claims don't overlap - one is just unsubstantiated. But if you claimed that the world is 6000 years old, your faith gives you immunity to snake venom, or you can cure homosexuality with prayer... well we can investigate all of those claims, and a conflict sure as shit exists.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
