(February 9, 2014 at 3:38 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Pagan gods controlled aspects of the natural world so they would conflict with science quite a fair bit. Yahweh just created the natural world and all the physical processes science can study. Yahweh or YHWH means "he causes to be" or "he creates". So as you can see there isn't much of a conflict to had seeing as it addresses something science can't.
Someone once said "god does not act in mysterious ways; he acts in ways indistinguishable from his non-existence". That is what I am seeing here; a god who is explicitly untestable by science. There is literally no failure state for someone who ascribes to this worldview. Nothing that happens ever can be taken as evidence against god. Pray and your prayer is "answered"? God did it. Pray and it is "answered" ten years later? Gog did it. Pray and it is never "answered"? God didn't feel like answering it. Small child barely survives devastating cancer? Praise the lord, our child is saved! Small child doesn't survive devastating cancer? It must have been his time; he's in a better place now.
If by Yahweh you only mean "he creates", then you have deism, not Christianity. Deism has not been scientifically debunked (though can it be?), so at least you would be vaguely honest here. But the Bible is a whole other matter. Talk of a single couple populating the whole world and a wooden boat holding and feeding thousands of animals for several months on open water is patently ridiculous. Did you not hear about the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate? Can you watch that debate and honestly still claim that Christianity doesn't conflict with science? (And, in the event that your post is taken only at face value, you technically only said god didn't conflict, in which case I would again point you to deism.)
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.