RE: No conflict between faith and science, eh?
May 21, 2015 at 12:10 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 12:10 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
Dogmatic faith-based assertions as a way of describing reality are in conflict with the critical examination of reality, could be one way of putting it.
Hypothetical:
What if there were a sect of Christianity that pared away all the obviously false crap from the Old and New Testament, all the miracles and magic and prophecy and shit like that, and was literally only the acceptance of Jesus Christ as your savior to achieve immortal life, and that's it.
The members of this sect used science, skepticism, and empiricism to discover and inform their ideas about all other aspects of their lives.
Would this religion be 'in conflict' with science? I guess...technically not? But that's only beacuse their claim (Jesus = immortailty) cannot be tested at all by science, and has no possible way (right now) of being verified. I find the cognitive dissonance and the clashing methodologies of discovering things about the world to be more in conflict than any specific claim or set of claims.
Hypothetical:
What if there were a sect of Christianity that pared away all the obviously false crap from the Old and New Testament, all the miracles and magic and prophecy and shit like that, and was literally only the acceptance of Jesus Christ as your savior to achieve immortal life, and that's it.
The members of this sect used science, skepticism, and empiricism to discover and inform their ideas about all other aspects of their lives.
Would this religion be 'in conflict' with science? I guess...technically not? But that's only beacuse their claim (Jesus = immortailty) cannot be tested at all by science, and has no possible way (right now) of being verified. I find the cognitive dissonance and the clashing methodologies of discovering things about the world to be more in conflict than any specific claim or set of claims.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
