| sapphi_snake said:
Have you not seen all christians beliefs change with the times? Not the same thing. Religious beliefs change to accomodate society's wants (take for example the attitude towards divorce). Science changes because new discoveries are made, and what was though to be right in the past is no longer considered that way. It's a form of self correction (the change comming from within the community of scientists), while in religion's case it's more due to pressure from society (the change comes from outside, and has nothing to do with the validity of the beliefs themselves). What I am sating is they are almost the same thing when you look to either one to be complete fact. Scientifical theories are based on research. Religion is made-up stuff. Not the same thing. The beuty of religion is that it corrects itself overtime (christians belive in gravity now, the earth is not the center of the universe, medical breakthrouhgs) See? See what? Your examples do not show religion correcting itself, as those discoveries (gravity, heliocentrism, medical breakthroughs) were not made within religion. So this is a case of scientists correcting religion, not religion correcting itself, as religion is not responsable for those discoveries. Science and religion are not mutaully exclusive beliefs, and one can't bu used to disprove the other as. Science can be used to disporve religion. It doesn't work the other way around though. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_science
A list of christian scientist. Christians question things just as scientist do, and some are scientist also. So just as science corrects itslef with new info so does religion. How are these different? It is a self correcting by members who include them selves in the religion. Just as you say for the scientific communtiy. All I am saying is hawkings breakthrough has no bearing on religion. How did it prove a god can't exist or didn't exist?
