(June 12, 2022 at 1:28 pm)Astreja Wrote: There are very few verses in scriptures that can't be shoehorned into a scientific theory. Scriptures are notoriously vague and generally useless for practical applications of the things they allegedly discovered.
I'm amused that religious people continue to play this game - it actually undermines their position. Think of it this way: A scientist (usually of a different belief, or none) has succeeded in explaining a natural principle better than a god.
There are no verses or holy writings of antiquity worldwide, that had any modern scientific understanding.
Because, like you said, they are vague, and I would add to that ambiguous.
It would be like if I pointed to the sky and said, "The sky is blue". Anyone can do that, but nobody back then had any knowledge that light was not in any object, but in the light waves the sun produces, which bounce off the planet's surface giving the sky the appearance of being blue. But funny that, it seems translucent at night.
