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EricHiggin on 27 March 2020
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OhNoYouDont said:
EricHiggin said:

You do see the problem here right? A religious person can use that right back against you. 'I will accept evidence in scientific form, but if it doesn't conform to the biblical method, it will be discarded'. Do you not see the problem with the ONE and ONLY viewpoint from both sides?

Then religion doesn't need to prove itself. Religion is based on the spiritual world, which is also somewhat tied to the natural world.

I don't know if this is a serious challenge or you're making a joke here...but...

The reason the scientific method is considered trustworthy is because of its predictive power. While science doesn't produce truths, its approximations and models are effectively considered facts as a result of this.

Your comparison to a dusty old collection of documents written by ignorant fools by today's standards does not hold a candle to this process.

Now if the Bible or other religious text had some ability to predict the future by warning us about COVID 19 on a certain date in a certain location that would surely be something.

Critical thinking is seriously lacking in the religious community, but it's not that religious folks are incapable of thinking critically. There are countless critical thinkers who are religious - no, it's the blind spot that religion produces that is most troublesome.

The low quality OP probably should have resulted in a thread closure in my opinion. It was clear from the beginning that this wasn't a discussion, but an opportunity to proselytize. You're not interested in learning at all are you?

Did science precisely predict this Covid outbreak? Has is saved us all from it since?

You're too focused on the religion and science, when the point here was the free individual that's accepting or denying what those offer.

You have some who are 100% all in on religion, which then goes against science, while you also have some who are 100% all in on science, which goes against religion.

If certain religion and it's one and only God's teachings aren't useful, then why should science and it's "God particle" be the one and only that's useful?

One and only one being useful and all others being discarded is Nazi type thinking, no matter the subject, and look what that type of thinking led to. 

Like what was said before, what's important is improving where possible when failures occur.