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Quote by: Muckraker  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. |
Yet your using example of science attacked by religion to demonstrate your problem with religion.
It's a common attack method. You make up an example of X person trying to use a belief instead of a fact in a given situation. Then you use that as case in point for religion being a load of crap.
I think its atheists who feel more attacked, since its your "camp" so to speak that makes up extreme examples such as using faith to fix a car. Had anyone tried to every tell you to pray for your broken car? Then why the need to continually bring up the subject.