Why I can't take the Gospels seriously.

[Brian37]

Yea because water is sooooo new and not older than caffeine or carbonation.

Carbonated water was invented by Christian minister Joseph Priestley.

Um yea ok.

And  Asian invented what we now know as gunpowder.

Arabs invented Algebra 

And the ancient Egyptians were master engineers. 

You do know one of our resident Muslims whom posts here loves to point to the Koran and claim all sorts of scientific insights.

Point being, that human discovery has never been a result of religion, but a result of our evolutionary curiosity.

Worldwide in every century worldwide there are countless points of individuals of all nations and all religions whom have contributed to future discoveries. That says to me, that it isn't a religion, or political party, or a nation that has a patent on discovery. It merely means that our species is curious.

I hate it when Christians quote Aquinas. I hate it when Muslims point to Algebra. I hate it when Sam Harris points to Buddhism. 

It isn't that religious people cant, or don't accept science. It is more along the lines that religion is not akin to science. 

I have over the past 20 years, run into apologists who point to Islam, Christianity, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhism, and point to science as evidence that they got the one correct club.

If one can willingly accept, and rightfully so, that Thor is not an explanation for lightening, then why should any scientific advance, no mater who makes the discovery, have to lead to a religious club by any label?

Humans worldwide, in our human history, have contributed to our understanding of nature and reality. But I do get tired of apologists using our natural curiosity to point to religion or a god/God.

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I don't think religion is caffeinated...

Well Mormonism certainly isn't.

You got me on that one.

But still, they base their religion on a founder who was a con artist. I think Joseph Smith would have sold Red Bull if alive today. And lets not get stared on the magic underwear.