Science vs. Religion: The 500-year War (Flood Treatment) (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, February 19, 2011, 01:11 (4822 days ago) @ xeno6696

How I wish I had done those calculations for Balance back when you wrote this, lol. -
Still... comparative religion studies date Noah's Ark as a Jewish retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Yeah... the only reason I know this stuff is for writing that blasted novel...-I know one of your points in the first chapter overall is that some work should be done to reconcile science and religion, as you critique Miller's offhand dismissal of YEC. -Yet speaking from the mind I have now, it is very difficult to take their position seriously. It's... Quixotic devotion is uniquely Western, and... well, cartoonish. -My ideal for the two to get along better is to encourage more people like Francis Collins, or my old biochem professor to encourage kids into science. The unfortunate issue is that Creationists at large are only going to take the claims of other religious people seriously. Collins deeply undermines the Creationist paradigm of "anti-evolution." -In terms of materialists... there isn't much you can really do there. They have to learn to play nice with theists. Perhaps we should encourage more Indian and Muslim professorships. Typically they bring some brand of theism to the table. -In either case, it's not going to be easy.-As for the relationship between Religion and Science, I still maintain that the true nature of religion is how man deals with man on earth. This necessarily puts it in a different box than science in the first place. 2 of how many chapters in the Hebrew Bible are devoted to creation? How many deal with the dealings of men?

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"