Science is the study of the natural world in an effort to learn about it: find out what the nature of the world is, what has happened, and what is likely to happen in the future. Science is tentative. Science depends on repeatable observations. Science changes as the evidence changes. If religion is willing to adopt these same practices, the two can peacefully coexist. Of course, I suppose if religion did adopt those practices, it would no longer be religion.
In the absence of that, religion needs to stop making factual claims about the real world that science can challenge, or at least be willing to accept what science says when it addresses such claims.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist
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