(August 30, 2012 at 1:16 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: Science relies on certain assumptions (or axioms). Articles of faith are essentially assumptions.You apparently don't understand how science actually works do you...
It might start with assumptions but then experiments to see if those assumptions hold true.
Whereas religion will start with assumptions and hold unto them regardless of what the evidence might say.
Quote:What if the Bible claimed that, say, the laws of quantum physics hold. In the 1700s, the Newtonian view of the universe would have disagreed with this view. So would the Bible have been wrong then?
Well it didn't, so your point is utterly irrelevent.
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.