RE: For those who believe the god of abraham was behind the big bang or evolution
October 18, 2018 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2018 at 1:03 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 17, 2018 at 8:52 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Which is better:
1. A theist embraces science and incorrectly claims it fits with his religion.
2. A theist embraces ignorance, correctly citing science as incompatible with his religion.
I'll go with #1 every time.
It is not really possible to embrace science and still be a theist. It is only possible to use science and still be a theist.
A theist who uses science is still embracing ignorance. He may admit the grounds suitable for ignorance to claim unchallenged dominion is smaller than what a theists who don’t use science may wish, but he is conceding peripheral grounds only with an eye towards strengthening ignorance’s dominion over the remaining core grounds. He is a theist who is trying to make lemonade out of the rotten moldy lemon that remains the core of his belief.
Such a theist is trying to defend a few aspects of ignorance well rather than all aspects of ignorance poorly, unlike the theist who rejects science all together. He is a wiser, but not a lesser, fool than the other theist.