aqua70
November 7, 2017, 9:18pm
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Re: The Balance of Science and Religion
Yes, they are. They have two different functions in society but sometimes religious beliefs and science contradict each other which creates issues.
No sh*t.
No, I am not. I am not saying that the general philosophies and beliefs of all religions are going to be the exact same. But, cross-culturally religion has had a general function in society and it has been to explain phenomena that humans could not explain themselves at the time and to provide a moral compass.
Whomst is telling you to shun one or the other? The point of the discussion is how people are going to balance their faith and new scientific knowledge that might contradict what they believe in. It is not just evolutionary biology that might come out with new information that will contradict people’s faith. Galileo’s take on heliocentrism created a lot of controversy among the Catholic church at the time because they claimed it was contrary to scripture and he ended up in a lot of trouble.
Umm like they did before? You basically answered your own question. Galileo got in trouble for stating earth is not the center of the universe which contradicted the scripture of that time but did Catholicism disappear? No, centuries later it is still here, they adapted.