RE: Science and Religion cannot overlap.
August 11, 2014 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2014 at 11:36 am by Michael.)
(August 11, 2014 at 11:18 am)Rhythm Wrote:(August 11, 2014 at 9:47 am)ManMachine Wrote: God is designed to elude such investigation, but that does not make it incompatible with science, just means it is beyond the enquiry of science, which - if I were a god - actually sounds like a godly quality to me.Yes, it is, and very poorly so. Human beings really aren't all that good at imagining non-falsifiable things, or things which cannot be investigated (if not currently, than in-principle). We have no experience with that sort of thing, and so our lack of ability in this regard is understandable. I would add that it;s really only the apologists god that is designed this way, of course.
MM
I would suggest that it is an anachronistic view to see the belief in the existence of God, or the 'design of God', as one which is trying to avoid investigation by science (or by other means). I would see the God of the Hebrew Scriptures, for example, as much more of a 'sense-making' exercise of the history of the people who would become known as Jews.