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Originally Posted by suckblood the only problem with believing that science and religion can coexist, is that how do you explain them so that they work together. religion says that a god created everything, including man, and the stories don't include anything about dinosaurs. but science shows that dinosaurs existed, and that the time earth was created, doesn't agree with when religion says it was created. |
Thats like saying. Well Darwin said we evolved form monkeys into humans! and then claiming there was nothing between. The problem is taking it too literally. The original scripture laid down by the early jews was pretty simple stuff considering how unadvanced society was at the time. SO they wrapped thier beliefs in little cutsey stories for the uneducated illiterates to understand. kind of like how Jesus would never come out and say, "dude, if you are too good to help other people and pass them by when they need help then you are a scumbag and wont go to heavan because youre morally bankrupt" no instead he told a story about a wounded traveler who was aided by a kind sumaritan. Same differnce.
If you dig into the roots of the belief though its that the universe and exisetence was created by a greater being. Thats all. Thats the belief. The rest is cosmetic. So dont take the fact that the bible or koran dont mention dinosaurs to mean that all Christians and Jews and Muslims who believe in creationism are morons because thier holy literature forgot to mention it.
I myself do not beleive in any religions, but I am not sure how I feel about the originas of life. I know for a fact though that nothing comes from nothing, so something had to make us, and the only thing moderatly comforting about that is that it seems to take intelligence of some kind to put us together as well as the laws of nature. If there was nothing to make those laws, then those laws wouldnt exist which is why to me science without the creamy philosophical religious center is just a hollow explanation.
Like explaining how a gunshot killed someone without ever mentioning a gun or bullets.