RE: Christianity compatible with atheism
October 4, 2011 at 10:29 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2011 at 10:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
When religious beliefs are codified by a text and almost entirely devoted to the subject of the interaction of the divine with the material, they have most certainly stepped into the realm of the explainable. No magic required. The only people, for example, who want to believe that archaeology and geology cannot make a comment on a global flood are those that have a vested interest in the narrative. It is at this point exactly that any principles or comprehension of scientific understanding fails for these people. Would that stop an engineer from being able to do his work? No. Would it be an irreconcilable notion for a geologist? Yes.
Strip religion of the demonstrably false and what do you have left? Just as the op is an if-by-whiskey argument, so is the position that science and religion are compatible. One must bend the principles of the other to breaking to make them remotely concordant. The trouble is that one of these things is not like the other. One can be demonstrated.
Strip religion of the demonstrably false and what do you have left? Just as the op is an if-by-whiskey argument, so is the position that science and religion are compatible. One must bend the principles of the other to breaking to make them remotely concordant. The trouble is that one of these things is not like the other. One can be demonstrated.
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