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thranx on 05 September 2010
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sapphi_snake said:
thranx said:
sapphi_snake said:
thranx said:

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?

Again, religion doesn't correct itself, as the correction comes from outside it's field (from science, or from society in the case of things like divorce).

And what's the point of that list anyways?

They are christian, they made break throughs, christains follow those breakthroughs? Do you not see I am saying it is the same thing? why is it ok for science to correct itself but not religion? If you believe in god you can't be a scientist? is that what you are saying?

They are christian, they made break throughs, christains follow those breakthroughs?

They may have been Christians, but they made breakthroughs in science, not religion.

Do you not see I am saying it is the same thing? why is it ok for science to correct itself but not religion?

Where did I say that religion can't correct itself? I said that the examples you gave aren't examples of religion correcting itself, but examples of religion being corrected by groups outside it's field (scientists, society etc.). For religion to correct itself, it would have to be a religious authority who makes the discovery (through means specific to said religion) and then proposes the correction, not a scietist who used the scientific method to make the new discovery in the field of science.

If you believe in god you can't be a scientist? is that what you are saying?

Of course you can. And you can be a Pulitzer Prize winning author and enjoy the Twilight books too.

So all scientific breakthroughs happen at the top? I met your requirement from earlier so you change them?

Religous scientist make breakthroughs, christian followers follow said breakthoughs, religion did not self correct? I don't get it maybe you can explain better. Are you saying it is only religous correction if it comes from a bishop, cardinal preist, pope? How high up do you have to be? What if your not catholic and there isn't an overarching religous government to do it for you? The religous and scientific communites are interwinded.

You do also know that there are many different churches and christian beliefs which is just one out of many religions and not all chritians follow the beliefs of all other christians? The catholic church is one a few world wide churches. Many are actually just one building, one group of people in a city they are jnot interlinked like the catholics are. They dont even always agree with each other.