Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 64 (9164 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,860 Year: 4,117/9,624 Month: 988/974 Week: 315/286 Day: 36/40 Hour: 2/6


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Scientific Theory For Dummies
Percy
Member
Posts: 22502
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
Member Rating: 4.9


Message 18 of 57 (555570)
04-14-2010 8:50 AM
Reply to: Message 15 by marc9000
04-12-2010 7:32 PM


marc9000 writes:
In many cases it is, because so many scientists use it that way to try to discredit religion. It's interesting that you use Dawkins as an example of someone trying to educate the public.
You are still deluding yourself that science has some war against religion. Lots of scientists don't like Dawkins, either, and wish he would shut up.
When practicing science, in other words, when they're working, scientists don't think about religion, just as when plumbers and electricians are working they're not thinking about religion, even fervent evangelical plumbers and electricians.
Most scientists have no problem with religion, and many scientists are religious anyway. What scientists have a problem with is religious apologists promoting religion as science. They're not against your religion's religion. They're against your religion's unevidenced "science."
--Percy

This message is a reply to:
 Message 15 by marc9000, posted 04-12-2010 7:32 PM marc9000 has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 21 by marc9000, posted 04-15-2010 7:40 PM Percy has replied

  
Percy
Member
Posts: 22502
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
Member Rating: 4.9


Message 26 of 57 (555909)
04-16-2010 6:00 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by marc9000
04-15-2010 7:40 PM


I think I'm going to have to concur with Nwr that you have a persecution complex where facts play only a small role, so I'm going to demur from further attempts at rational dialog with you.
--Percy

This message is a reply to:
 Message 21 by marc9000, posted 04-15-2010 7:40 PM marc9000 has not replied

  
Percy
Member
Posts: 22502
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
Member Rating: 4.9


Message 29 of 57 (555924)
04-16-2010 9:18 AM
Reply to: Message 28 by Huntard
04-16-2010 8:22 AM


Aside from Dawkins, the most prominent practicing scientists in the creation/evolution debate that I can think of are Stephen Jay Gould (now deceased) and Ken Miller, both very friendly to religion.
And of course the Methodists and Catholics must be atheists, too, since they have no problem with evolution or the rest of modern science.
--Percy

This message is a reply to:
 Message 28 by Huntard, posted 04-16-2010 8:22 AM Huntard has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 30 by Huntard, posted 04-16-2010 9:26 AM Percy has seen this message but not replied

  
Percy
Member
Posts: 22502
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
Member Rating: 4.9


Message 33 of 57 (556088)
04-17-2010 7:51 AM
Reply to: Message 31 by kbertsche
04-17-2010 3:12 AM


Re: Evidence
Both science and history try to figure out and explain the real world. Theology is trying to figure things out about the spiritual world. Problems only arise when people use theology to figure out and explain the real world.
--Percy

This message is a reply to:
 Message 31 by kbertsche, posted 04-17-2010 3:12 AM kbertsche has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 36 by kbertsche, posted 04-17-2010 11:28 AM Percy has seen this message but not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024