Standard stages of how religion deals with scientific discovery:
1. REJECTION: Condemn the discovery as blasphemous against the faith, as the scriptures clearly say otherwise.
2. ANGER: Persecute anyone who supports the new theory based on the discovery. Destroy any evidence they can find.
3. DENIAL: Having failed to suppress the theory, they provide alternate ideas (pseudo-science) and call for freedom of debate. Insist that there's a "controversy" and "all sides" should be included in the education of our children. Advancing the theory as fact is met with distain by believers, as if it were dubious or disputed, even if supported by the entire scientific community.
4. ACCEPTANCE: Once the faith-friendly-pseudo-science promoted by the church collapses, they embrace the scientific theory as miraculous confirmation of their scriptures. Obscure (and often vaguely worded) passages in scripture are dragged out and wrenched out of context to be interpreted to support the knowledge discovered by science. These passages are happily copied and pasted all over atheist forums everywhere as proof of the divine origin of the scriptures. All the theologians from history who persecuted those who advanced the scientific theory are reviled as "not true (fill in name of the faithful here)". These fools misunderstood the true meaning of the scriptures.
5. WASH, RINSE, REPEAT: New scientific theory is discovered. Return to step one. Let the dragging, kicking and screaming commence.
1. REJECTION: Condemn the discovery as blasphemous against the faith, as the scriptures clearly say otherwise.
2. ANGER: Persecute anyone who supports the new theory based on the discovery. Destroy any evidence they can find.
3. DENIAL: Having failed to suppress the theory, they provide alternate ideas (pseudo-science) and call for freedom of debate. Insist that there's a "controversy" and "all sides" should be included in the education of our children. Advancing the theory as fact is met with distain by believers, as if it were dubious or disputed, even if supported by the entire scientific community.
4. ACCEPTANCE: Once the faith-friendly-pseudo-science promoted by the church collapses, they embrace the scientific theory as miraculous confirmation of their scriptures. Obscure (and often vaguely worded) passages in scripture are dragged out and wrenched out of context to be interpreted to support the knowledge discovered by science. These passages are happily copied and pasted all over atheist forums everywhere as proof of the divine origin of the scriptures. All the theologians from history who persecuted those who advanced the scientific theory are reviled as "not true (fill in name of the faithful here)". These fools misunderstood the true meaning of the scriptures.
5. WASH, RINSE, REPEAT: New scientific theory is discovered. Return to step one. Let the dragging, kicking and screaming commence.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
