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Do you think Science and Religion can co-exist in a society?
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RE: Do you think Science and Religion can co-exist in a society?
(June 1, 2017 at 7:03 pm)Lek Wrote:
(June 1, 2017 at 6:54 pm)Aegon Wrote: Jesus supposedly walked on water, transformed water into wine, magically healed cripples and lepers, and rose from the dead. If I recall correctly it is a crucial crux of Christianity to believe that stuff happened.

It'd be easy to explain how much of the Old Testament contradicts science, but I'm sure you're aware of that and I'm sure I'd get a "Christians don't follow the OT" response

Science says it's impossible for a person to do these things, but God is a supernatural being and is not subject to natural law.  Science has no way to prove whether or not God exists since it only can investigate the natural world.  Since Jesus is God in the flesh I'm not rejecting any science to believe that he did these things.  In that regard, today people are healed from terminal diseases and science has no explanation for how these healings occurred.

If science says these things are impossible then it contradicts science, end of story. Everything is subject to natural law and the laws of physics. Even if I accept that God exists I could only, at best, accept a Deist God. Because even if he is capable of anything, including the creation of our universe, he must abide by our natural laws if he were to interact with us within our universe. Jesus doing the things he did is impossible and do contradict science. 

Look, science may not always have all the answers to your questions. But that's because the questions are meaningless. Questions that humans crave answers to... what is our purpose, is there life after death, etc. Science either doesn't have answers to these types of questions or it gives an answer that people don't want to hear. I'm sympathetic to faith, honestly. But people need to admit that they're just trying to make themselves feel better, and that their beliefs certainly do contradict what we know to be true and what has been proven. I'd still be Catholic but I think almost every single Christian belief is completely and utterly wrong and nonsensical. I'm so far gone from that faith that what you're saying is ridiculous to me. Replace "God" with "Bigfoot" or "unicorns" and that's how you sound to me.

I don't want you think that I look to science for everything. I have been going through difficult times and I face the same existential questions that you do. But I can't force myself to believe something that goes against all logic. The only religious philosophy I find myself following is Taoism, but it goes along quite well with science IMO.
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RE: Do you think Science and Religion can co-exist in a society? - by Aegon - June 1, 2017 at 7:36 pm

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