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Author Topic:   Denouncing religions ? [New to debate]
anastasia
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Message 6 of 89 (388932)
03-08-2007 11:23 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by MadaManga
03-07-2007 11:00 AM


Madamanga writes:
Is Creationism an attempt to denounce other religions by "scientifically" proving the holy scripture of Christians to be correct, thereby proving the holy scriptures of other religions incorrect?
The other scriptures are just not relevent to the debate because the creationists already believe that their scritpure is correct. No one tries to prove others wrong, per se, but they are trying desperately to prove their own.
I do not mean to cause offence, but there is very little mention of other religions in this debate and as it's a religion verse science debate, this strikes me as odd.
There are two things here; one is that this forum does not have many practicing members of non-Abrahamic faiths. We do not have for instance many if any Hindus, few Muslims, a few Toaists, but mainly Judeo-christians or christians. Not that this forum is mainly christian, but of those who ascribe to a faith, it is .
So, you have to take that into account, and also question whether other faiths have any truth claims when it comes to science. They may, but they are unknown to me.
Let's just say that many religions have a theory about the origins of the universe. Some of these are not dealing with any manuscript which is thought to be infallible. Some are. But for whatever reason, in this particular forum, those who are opposed to evolution fall into the Christian category by and large.
What would be interesting to me is to discover what if anything other religions have to say about science, and to find out why it is mainly christianity involved in the debate.
It is worth noting that Christianity is not truly incompatible with science, but only in certain groups who have a specific interpretation of Scritpure. There must be parallel cases in other religions, but again I don't know of them off-hand.

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