thranx said:
miz1q2w3e said:
Dude, listen to what you're saying: The majority of religous people have no problem with science and infuse it in their beliefs thus self correcting religon - - - - - - - - You're saying that science is infused into religious beleifs thus correcting it, that's the same as saying that "science corrects religion",totally different from religion correcting religion
anyways, I don't think it's possible right now for religion to "correct itself" as the source for the information and writings is long gone and we are going to suddenly "discovered" anything new in this field
BUT one very very important thing that you seem to be forgetting is that for something to be corrected, it needs to be "not right" to begin with. if religion is indeed the "infallible word of god" than this by definition makes it impossible to correct as it is not possible for it to be wrong in the first place by definition... so if science in fact WERE to correct religion in one way or another, that religion would be deemed false, end of story
like if some religion stated long ago in its texts that the earth was flat... we now are certain that the earth is round so the discovery of the real shape of the earth would have led to the discarding of this religion - - - - - that's why science correcting religion or religion correcting itself is not in religion's favor at all. huge wall of text is huge.
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I am saying science is a part of religion when said science is done by those who belive in said religions or religous beliefs.
I never said the bolded, and I do not know many who would. I also never said religion is infalible so Ido not see wh y you are attacking me there.
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I wasn't trying to attack you :p - - but that's actually part of the definition of what it means to be God. God is perfect by definition, therefore so are his words. If part of his religion was wrong, then that would mean that God would have to be wrong, which is a contradiction.
I can't beleive this is the first you're hearing of the matter. Religions have always stated that their respective texts are the infallible (or inerrant) words of God, this originating from the assumption that God is perfect.
I brought this up to respond to you saying that science could correct religion or that religion could correct itself. that happening would mean the end of that religion
