marc9000 writes:
vThe point of this thread is that we should be able to distinguish between useful science and wasteful science, or science that's only intent is to promote the destruction of Christianity
Tangle writes:
That's just laughable. It's the sort of thing you would have heard from a 16th century zealot or a Inquisitor.
It is not merely laughable. The idea that geology and astronomy are attempts to disprove Christianity is also demonstrably wrong. For example, just looking at the history of the development of geology over the 17th through 20th century will reveal that the conflicting evidence was achieved first as efforts to confirm Noah's flood, and later from attempts to develop commercial results from mining and drilling.
In a previous thread, marc9000 demonstrated a similar lack of familiarity with the history of astronomy.
Quite obviously marc9000 has no idea what he is talking about. If it turns out that he is correct, it would be by the sheerest of accidents.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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