Are we REALLY looking for answers or are we looking to 'win' a battle within the larger culture war?
The problem is not winning or losing, it is that there has got to be an understanding of what each side is saying. The point is what is science? and what is religion? When one side attempts to invade the other then the dilemma arises. Where each side stays within its boundaries there is no problem.
as onifre says
Cosmology is dealt with in science while "monotheistic worldviews" are dealt with in theology.
This is correct. Science can only deal with the natural world and must stay out of the supernatural and also theology deals with the supernatural and must stay out of the natural. By injecting the other in either case diminishes the meaning.
This is what was brought out i Edward vs. Aguillard in 1987 when the US Supreme court struck down the Louisiana equal treatment law, with the determination of what was science and what was not. No matter how one tries to cover up the religious aspect of creation/ID, it is stll not science. The dilemma is that since this stiking down of equal treatment, the radical theistic groups are still trying to redefine science to include creation which deals with the supernatural as naturalism.
There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002
Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969
Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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