Can Science and Religion co exist?

• Devils Advocate

  

  Alright, lets keep this rational. ( that means you religious people )
  
  Let the flame wars begin!
  
  
• Belly35

  

  Bigfoot real
• vball10set

  meh
• sleeper

  

  They can provided the religious people keep their bullshit to themselves.
• dlazz

  OP's post is probably fabricated
• OSH

  

  Weak.
• vball10set

  sleeper;1599164 wrote:They can provided people like me keep their bullshit to themselves.

  Hallelujah, brother!!!
• sleeper

  

  vball10set;1599177 wrote:Hallelujah, brother!!!

  lol. Sorry, but my thoughts are based in reality something religion lacks and has always lacked. If anything, the atheists in this county need to become more aggressive to stomping out ignorance and punishing those that openly express their moronic views.
• jmog

  Devils Advocate;1599157 wrote:Alright, lets keep this rational. ( that means you religious people )
  
  Let the flame wars begin!
  
  

  I would like to see the evolutionary origins replicated please, the big bang as well.
• OSH

  

  jmog;1599181 wrote:I would like to see the evolutionary origins replicated please, the big bang as well.

  Especially since "humanity starts from scratch" again...does that mean we have to wait for "millions of years" to see these evolutionary changes? And are they guaranteed to evolve into humans again?
• sleeper

  

  jmog;1599181 wrote:I would like to see the evolutionary origins replicated please, the big bang as well.

  At least they are trying to replicate this or prove how the world started instead of continually referencing a book written 2000 years ago with contradictions and unproven historical fact. I mean come on man, its all made up. Time to grow up.
• Classyposter58

  

  sleeper;1599187 wrote:At least they are trying to replicate this or prove how the world started instead of continually referencing a book written 2000 years ago with contradictions and unproven historical fact. I mean come on man, its all made up. Time to grow up.

  Was written 2700 years ago. You need to watch the Life of Pi and then make a decision
• sleeper

  

  Classyposter58;1599192 wrote:Was written 2700 years ago. You need to watch the Life of Pi and then make a decision

  I don't really care if it was written 3 days ago; the whole thing is made up and I can't believe in 2014 we still have people that actually believe this crap. The reality is, we have stupid people who procreate and indoctrinate their children into believing myths who then continue the cycle onto their own children. The weapons of religion are fear; both of what happens after we die and the fear of being disowned by family members that are brainwashed with the same belief system. Thankfully, with the advent of the internet and subsequently the entrance into the 'information age' will erode practices that are based in ignorance.
• fish82

  

  The fact that you people give so many fucks about religion is amusing.
• pmoney25

  

  I think it is easier to believe in a God than it is religion, if that makes sense.
• rydawg5

  Not sure if "religion" would be the correct term for this. Intelligent Design is the better description for this argument.
  
  Science cannot say that the "big bang" was by chance or by design, so they will co-exist until then. However you can make a personal choice:
  
  If you believe there is > 0% probability that the Big Bang was not by chance. Then ID or Religion is something to consider .. picking which is a different process.
  
  If you determine there is 0% probability then the argument stops and there is no co-existing.
• Devils Advocate

  

  Sooooo...... Religion picks up where the science ends?
• jmog

  sleeper;1599187 wrote:At least they are trying to replicate this or prove how the world started instead of continually referencing a book written 2000 years ago with contradictions and unproven historical fact. I mean come on man, its all made up. Time to grow up.

  Trying to replicate something that may or may not have happened at all? Sounds like what you complain about religious hocus pocus.
• rydawg5

  Not "picks up" if the designer "created" then the Big Bang was the start of that process. If you believe that is plausible then religion is still in the mix. For fundamentalists in religion, science isn't helping their case. More so on the sexuality than a Big Bang
• Automatik

  

  I hope they address this in one of the Cosmos episodes.
• JD413

  

  rydawg5;1599238 wrote:More so on the sexuality than a Big Bang

  lulz. Punny.
• HitsRus

  

  I think it is easier to believe in a God than it is religion, if that makes sense.

  Sooooo...... Religion picks up where the science ends?

  Religion is simply a vehicle for achieving your spirituality or your connection to our universe or the creator. Keep in mind that much is anthropomorphic to make it easier to understand. Parables, allegories,metaphors...the scientific accuracy is not important...communication of an idea or concept is. Those that rely on scientific accuracy as proof one way or another will be disappointed. Those that are 'religious' will be disappointed every time science and an anthropromorphism are in conflict. Those that are 'atheistic' will be disappointed because science will never fully explain all there is to know because it is not possible, being of finite mind, to know all. No matter which 'side' you are on it comes down to a matter of 'faith'
  
  Science reveals the physical workings of our universe....our universe, and only our universe.
• Mohican00

  

  Devils Advocate;1599157 wrote:Alright, lets keep this rational. ( that means you religious people )
  
  Let the flame wars begin!
  
  

  Ok this is just poorly written and thought out.
  
  First, strip all technology from existence and expect a rebound to where we are today in a few thousand years? Proto hominids were using simple tools (technology) by about 2.5 million years ago. That's a helluva difference to make up especially given that knowledge (a function of memory) has been erased too. IDGAF the mental capability modern man carries, without experience and a cumulative knowledge handed down through generations that ability is useless. Additionally, if you want to bring evolution/adaptation into this, having a large brain means more fuel to operate it with which would be especially trying considering the blank slate, no tools humans we're left with. If anything one would expect evolution to move backwards to a more limited capacity given that a large brain would be more of a hindrance than a less complex sub species operating on a eat, don't die, reproduce schedule. Few thousand years my ass
  
  Second, it's repeated, not replicated. You're not increasing the quantity of these things, this is not experimental design, mankind is simply redoing things mankind has once performed.
  
  Last, I can assure you, however, that your story about a talking snake would be gone forever. And replaced with based god flying spaghetti monster.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  sleeper;1599180 wrote:lol. Sorry, but my thoughts are based in reality something religion lacks and has always lacked. If anything, the atheists in this county need to become more aggressive to stomping out ignorance and punishing those that openly express their moronic views.

  One county at a time could take a while.
• cruiser_96

  

  Spontaneous generation has not, does not, and will not occur.