@Diest TKO,
Quote:So if Christianity was gone, science wouldn't work anymore?
Science in the sense that it is an endless conversation about the world conducted by disinterested but keen human intelligences will always exist if the human race continues to exist.
But it is a very hypothetical question whether Christianity would be "gone" in any realistic time frame.
Would you like it to be gone TK? Or, what is more to the point, would you campaign for it to be gone and what would you put in its place if anything?
Would you expunge the record of it from history? How would you make it "gone"? If evolution theory is any guide it will fade away un-noticed when it has fulfilled its usefulness just as a fin does when it metamorphosises into a wing. I've explained why Christianity is a biologically driven evolutionary adaptation which will thus change when it suits it rather than when somebody says so.
I'm sorry if you think a fish could have said "I want my fins to become wings" and lo and behold flew away and settled in a tree for the night where it could nod off instead of having to keep swimming. And took its family with it and some friends to get round the incest regulations.
I made that daft on purpose to show you how daft your question is because you are wanting Christianity to be gone, I gather, otherwise forget this debate unless you have it with people more stupid than I am, right there on your desk, at your fingertips, with no wings to offer and no way of getting there and not even knowing where "there" is. And, moreover, not knowing whether "there" will still be there when you plan to get there. Like when you miss a duck from two paces because of how fast it waddled past and spray your great-great grandmother's portrait, in oils of course, with buckshot. Bearing in mind that she had waggled her bustle to such effect that her descendents were well provided for even if they were going to squander it before it got to you.
You do have eight great-great grandmothers. There's a fair chance one of them hit the jackpot in the great boom. And had her portrait painted in the old European style with Rembrandt tones and looking like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. Wishing you all well. Clasping a Bible in a frail white hand holding a rosary. You blew that away and the duck zoomed off. And you shot the fire full of holes as well with the CANTMISS cartridges.
It's a bit far fetched but it could have happened. Therefore Henry Fielding would have approved and that's good enough for me.
So I answered your question and I hope I taught you not to ask such silly questions. For your sake I mean.
It shows you don't understand science, evolution theory, materialist theory or Christianity but --hey--eh TK--you get by okay--no sweat. I used to do it myself.
BTW--are you coming over to see Queenie again. She has invited you. I'm looking forward to advising you on how to take better pictures of her and more befitting a mystical Pagan Queen of the Order of the Pentacle.
