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Quote by: HelioPrime  So your suggesting religion is trying to suppose itself greater than some scientific thought?
Well that is true for some fundamentalist when dealing with creationism perhaps but most of what christianity is a belief system. Atheists like to claim they have no belief system so how can religion be offering a conflicting belief?
Faith offers a mother something to cling to when she loses a child, offers an old dying man a happiness that his death is only a beginning, and many other wonders in basic life.
Is this threatening to science somehow? And what does science offer than these thoughts are supplanting? Science has not brought anyone back from the dead and can only offer answers to specific questions related to events and happenings we can currently measure.
Belief is separate from science yet science continually tries to interject itself into belief. Science says it has no evidence for an afterlife so an afterlife must not exist. Thats not fact, thats willful manipulation of information, and molding people to accept information science can't even study as fact. |
I think you have it reversed. Science couldn't be concerned any less with religious belief. It is religious belief that feels "attacked" by science since basic scientific concepts directly contradict vast portions of religious tenets.
Using my Moh's Hardness example, science states that there is no harder mineral than diamond on Earth. The person claiming to possess a mineral harder than diamond feels attacked by such a statement when in reality, the statement is merely the culmination of scientific evidence up to that point. Science, though, is not attacked by the person claiming to possess the mineral harder than diamond because there is no proof of such a mineral's existence.