Science and religion

[jstrodel]

All science charged with discovering the origins of the world and universe flatly denies the literal account of Genesis. And, if the beginning of the story is bullshit, why believe that the rest of it isn't?

But people have been interpreting Genesis non-literally for thousands of years. Your are presupposing that Genesis actually teaches a Young Earth. There are actually two stories in Genesis, Adam's name means simply man and there are other textual clues that say that that Genesis could be understood non-literally. You want Genesis to teach a Young Earth so you can say that science disproves Christianity, but you don't care about the many people such as the 48% of seminary professors that accept evolutionary theory and don't believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis.

How fucking ignorant. Science, as we understand it, began in Ancient Greece, flourished in medieval Muslim empires (while Christendom was mired in the pits of superstition and ignorance), and has only ever been acceptable to Christians when the findings do not contradict their dogma.

Aristotelian philosophy is much different from the science that comes from the modern period in men like Newton and Bacon and Locke. It is interesting that you mention the Greeks though, Aristotle who is really the founder of a lot of science believed in God. You cite the Greeks as if they don't prove the exact opposite point you are trying to make, which shows that you are a sophist and care only about your culture war and not understanding.

Thus proving that even the smartest men get it wrong sometimes. Also, theists do claim to have scientists among their number who never did, such as Albert Einstein. Many who make positive statements about 'god' are in reference to a 'natural' God, such as that of Spinoza, not the totalitarian dictator Christians worship.

Einstein was a pantheist. The man who was the first to propose the big bang was a Christian. The founder of modern genetics was a Christian (Mendel). Isaac Newton was a Christan.

All major opposition to science in the west started as a Christian endeavour and this remains true to this day.

With your attitude and dishonest heart, it is not hard to see why Christians would oppose science.

Show sources which indicate the percentage of scientists who believe in a personal God.

http://www.livescience.com/379-scientist...pline.html
http://ncse.com/rncse/18/2/do-scientists...reject-god

There are plenty others

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chr...in_science