RE: Another reason to accept evolution.....
June 18, 2018 at 8:59 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2018 at 9:00 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(June 16, 2018 at 9:57 am)Little Rik Wrote: Sure.
Of course.
Science or better say PHYSICAL SCIENCE always lead to a deeper understanding of the universe.......agree with that.
Unfortunately humans are not only made of matter or physicality right?
In this way if you try to solve human problem through the physical aspect only you will end up going around in circles and getting nowhere.
Just like a donkey that turn around and around and find itself in the same place.
You just don't get it FM, don't you?
Ah look at LR talking in metaphors, like Jesus. But you obviously ignored the part of my post where I said that there are plenty of people, even now, who are studying the "divine" (like theologians or ufologists) and they are the one running in circles.
Like one of the most famous cases, Thomas Aquinas, and his Summa Theologica where among other magical stuff gets obsessed with angels. Not only did he see them as real but devoted a large section of the Summa Theologica ("Treatise on the Angels") to their existence, number, nature, how they move, what they know, and what they want.
The philosopher Andrew Bernstein describes such theological analysis of arcane and unevidenced claims as “the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction--studying nothing."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1040277...ed-essence
Now of course science does study the consciousness and the brain. You can look for instance some videos on youtube featuring Oliver Sacks.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
