@DiversityDriven,
DiversityDriven;57821 wrote:My asss. Yur biased twards only cristians. "Of all the Christian sects, science is impeded least by the Catholics. " Why did you include all religions?
I'm biased *against* fundamentalists that want to stick their hands in places they don't belong.
Why didn't I include all religions? Well that didn't seem to be the topic at the beginning. Catholicism, however, was brought up quite early.
Quote:Is it possible that that extraterrestrial life could turn out to bo what we as humans would call a God? I think it funny you can believe in ET but not a God?
Because, unlike a god, the prospect of life arising on a planet orbiting a star is a good one. We know it can happen.
If extraterrestrial life is to be referred to as "God", then this deity is neither omnipotent nor omnipresent. It is neither god nor immortal being. It also requires one to subscribe to the idea of directed panspermia.
Didn't Stein's film make fun of that one, despite it being "intelligent design"?
Quote:But back to the issue of religion. The science you use today was derived by Christians.
I'll go with that. There were a good number of Muslims mixed up in there for a while during the 'Golden Age' before they became all crazy and alalalalalalalalallalalaBOOM on us. Remember that they, like the Greeks and other civilizations of the past, they had access to the Library... the central hub of science for the ancient world.
Anyway, moving along. Yeah, there were a good number of Christian believing people in the science arena. There still are.
Quote:They were devout and still provided you with the science you use today.
So did the Muslims. So did the Greeks. Same with the Romans, Egyptians, Persians, so on and so forth.
Quote:That is where the line is drawn because they drew it, no you.
They drew a line at observable, factual evidence. They understood this. Guess who derived the precursor to the scientific method we use today
Wasn't "you guys".
Quote:You are far from that kind of objectivity and what's funny is you think that your the master of it all.
Fail.
You are now assuming that a person's religious background gives credit to said religion. They, as with everyone else following a religion, check their gods at the door when putting on their labcoat. Religion has no play in science. Never has, never will. People working in scientific fields are free to believe any religion they choose. However if you put religion into you scientific works, it will destroy your credibility. Why? It's not science. Plain and simple.
Quote:That includes your god, Darwin.
Charlie's no god. He's a scientist that got it right. Very little of his original works are still applied in modern science... new evidence and procedures have surpassed his research. Charlie was a pioneer, that's it.
Quote:To error is human to forgive, divine. Does that hold for you?
So, the Church screwed up?