| Alara317 said: Why is it that every discussion about the merits of religion has to devolve into 'but science doesn't have ALL The answers either!' debates? Nobody says that science has all the answers, at least not at any one given time. The whole point of science is to test and theorize and test and hypothesize and test some more. It's not perfect - by nature it can't be - but it's a lot more accurate than anything religion offers. When comparing the two, here's how it goes: Science - "How do I know? Well, I tested the theory, I repeated the results, I had it vetted by another who was able to also recreate my results in a lab. It was then posted and challenged in an open forum for others to criticise and scrutinize, and they all agreed as well." Religion - "How do I know? I read it in a book, and the author of that book assures me that they wouldn't lie to me." These two shouldn't even be in the same discussion. Science may not have all the answers and may never be perfect, but at least it attempts to answer questions with distiguishable authority. Religion does no such thing. The people who criticising religion - especially the catholic religion - aren't doing it from a place of arrogance or superiority (most of the time), but are criticising it because any belief system DESERVES to be criticised, scrutinized, and tested if they want to make the sort of claims ANY religion makes about our origins and the greater nature of the world around us. By denying any scrutiny or critique, religion has basically opened itself up to be the target of hate and disrespect. until it can back up its claims with evidence of ANY sort, it doesn't deserve your respect, and should be laughed at for the joke it is. Sadly we don't live in that world; we live in a world where religion is, for some stupid reason, put on the same level of science and demands the same amount of respect. Religion deserves to be in a science class about as much as Alex Jones needs to be teaching history. Or Trump deserves to be in the white house. Completely ill-equipped to fulfil that position. |
"Why is it that every discussion about the merits of religion has to devolve into 'but science doesn't have ALL The answers either!'"
because the vast majority of people that i see ciriticise religion seem to labour under the delusion that science IS perfect and that through science we have a good understanding of our universe, which is so wrong that it cannot be over stated enough
"Religion - "How do I know? I read it in a book, and the author of that book assures me that they wouldn't lie to me.""
well actually this is the stance most people take with regards to their beliefs, even atheists... for example, have you seen an electron yourself? no? so why do you believe in them? because you have faith in someone that told you that they exist at the subatomic level
with better instruments we may over time come to discover that the concept of electrons is untrue and rework it but often the people that i'm talking about do not acknowledge that, because they behave like religious people holding onto a dogma
"The people who criticising religion - especially the catholic religion - aren't doing it from a place of arrogance or superiority (most of the time)"
i strongly disagree
"By denying any scrutiny or critique, religion has basically opened itself up to be the target of hate and disrespect. until it can back up its claims with evidence of ANY sort"
you don't believe that if the world warms enough and the ice caps melt that they'll be flooding?
