I really don't like the whole idea of 'science and faith can coexist and even compliment each other', or conicsely, the idea of NOMA.
A more accurate version of the 'science and faith can coexist' argument would be:
Science and faith can coexist if that faith makes absolutely no claims that can be tested and verified and measured by science, because every religious or supernatural claim that we have been able to investigate so far has not been anything supernatural at all. If at any point faith and science are in conflict (age of the earth, evolution, prayer as healthcare, etc) science has been shown over and over to be the one that is actually accurate. Religion has had to give up so much of its declarative authority over the state and functions of reality and our world that only after it's been shoved into the most untouchable of corners of the unsovled (as of now) mysteries of the universe can it puff its chest out and make its old bald assertions.
A more accurate version of the 'science and faith can coexist' argument would be:
Science and faith can coexist if that faith makes absolutely no claims that can be tested and verified and measured by science, because every religious or supernatural claim that we have been able to investigate so far has not been anything supernatural at all. If at any point faith and science are in conflict (age of the earth, evolution, prayer as healthcare, etc) science has been shown over and over to be the one that is actually accurate. Religion has had to give up so much of its declarative authority over the state and functions of reality and our world that only after it's been shoved into the most untouchable of corners of the unsovled (as of now) mysteries of the universe can it puff its chest out and make its old bald assertions.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
