(March 27, 2010 at 12:00 am)tackattack Wrote: 3-It also brought weapons, stronger diseases, waste, pollution, overpopulation, etc. You're only looking at the good of science and none of the bad. You're also only looking at the bad of religion and not the good...I thought you were more openminded than that.
To answer your 2 questions
a-God provides for us
b-Once again you're assuming religion excludes science. While the inverse is true, Religion doesn't profess to have an answer for all knowledge of the world, just it's origins and ways to better it.
'science' doesn't pollute or overpopulate. you pollute and have too many kids. what do you want people to do? stop driving? stop wanting electricity? do you want to go back to the times that only 1 in 5 babies survived birth? do you want to go back to the times when a new flu virus would wipe out half our population? God doesn't provide for anyone: we provide for ourselves. Religion is not an answer to the origins of the universe, it's a 'just so' story. Get a grip of reality. Think about what you're saying the next time you go to the dentist.
religion does exclude science but that doesn't mean that religious people can't be scientific about certain things (e.g. a theist that studies meteorology).
