(May 21, 2015 at 10:59 am)whateverist Wrote: So long as religion is seen as pat answers to every question, it is incompatible with science. But does it have to be that? So long as a religionist accepted the essential mystery of their god then science needn't pose any conflict for them.
Christians could admit that their understanding of the bible is imperfect. They could recognize that how one should read the bible isn't obvious, that an allegorical approach is as permissible as a legalistic one. If they would accept this much humility and uncertainty, then science would be an easy hurdle.
But that's just the thing, many theists do talk about how uncomprehensible to our minds their god is, but that he has revealed certain things about reality.
Again, if theists were to say something like "if our religious claims come into conflict with verifiable, testable, empirical evidence, the religious claim is then discarded", then I suppose that would be..."okay", but you'd still have people making unsubstantiated claims from ridiculous sources until they're proven wrong...which isn't a reasonable way to go about things.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
