Quote (Toothfariy @ Jun 11 2011 12:13am)
Science is villified by some of the more extreme religous people; especially when it walks into their territory (evolution). To me, if i was religous i would see science as threat to my beliefs because hey, they could discover somthing that would completely shatter my current beliefs. So the only escape from that is to villify science and pretend that it doesnt do anything.
I dont think it hinders us all that much as a people since almost all genius inventions or scientific improvements have been made on secular grounds. Edison didnt invent the lightbulb in the name of god, or do so because he though it would help him get into heaven.
Your first Comment is kind of a broad brush statment that is more inaccurate than accurate. It could also be said the "A small minority of religious people villify science" and that would be equaly correct. In Reality, Many Scientists hold Strong Religious Beliefs, and many do not. I think the only part of Science that people with religious belief are in opposion to is the idea that Life and the Universe are a cosmic co-incidence. One side thinks existence is meaningless and accidental, then other does not.
On your second comment I will go as far to say that NONE of the scientific discoveries were made in the name of God, or to help someone get into Heaven. Why would they be? Scientific Development has nothing to do with any Religious following. This shows a complete lack of knowledge of even the simplest concepts of religion.
Presently in Quantum Physics there is a split on String Theory, because it ventures into Theory that can never pass the muster of the Scientific Model. Because of this many Scientist argue that to continue along that path would turn Scientists into Priests, by insisting on faith in the theory rather than being observable. And String Theory has Absoulty Nothing to do with Religion at all.
Kind of like this Scientific Quote:
Questions of faith is whatever you actually believe it is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith. We posit a theory, and until it's disproven, we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true. Until it's proven to be untrue...A.k.a.
We were the center of the universe until it was proven that we were not
The world was flat, until it was proven that is was not
The Expansion of the universe was slowing down, until it was proven that it is not
Imagine what we KNOW today, that will be proven wrong tommorrow
This post was edited by FullArcFG on Jun 11 2011 08:15am