| Shadow1980 said: And since God was brought up, well, fun fact: the first man to propose the Big Bang theory was Georges Henri Lemaitre, who was a priest as well as a scientist. The Big Bang theory, like every other theory in science, is no more "atheistic" than, say, our theories on how light or gravity work. |
Where I used to work, we'd get in a lot of old men who would hang out and talk about god. They would argue the finer points because they were different denominations but they'd unite to combat the evils of science. I remember one of them passing out some anti-evolution literature which they had a big "amen" fest over. Without saying what I personally believed, I did point out that some of the information in the pamphlet was inaccurate. That did not go over well at all.
After that, I decided to run a little experiment. In the following months, I would talk about evolution but instead of saying "evolution", I'd use the word "nature". Pretty much everything I talked about met with agreement or, at the least, was considered respectfully. However, any discussion were the word "evolution" was mentioned met with immediate rejection.
It's such a false dichotomy, this idea that everything with religion and science has to be either/or. I don't really understand it sometimes.
