tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post5232135930620276336..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Changing Your Mind: Are Science and Religion Compatible?Larry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-16694535543236994772009-03-02T19:28:00.000-05:002009-03-02T19:28:00.000-05:00Religion emphasizes faith, which is essentially be...Religion emphasizes faith, which is essentially believing without evidence. Science demands experiments that can be repeated in a laboratory and claims that can be falsified. Science does not demand people believe something without evidence. Religion cannot be falsified, because none of its claims can be repeated in a laboratory. They are not compatible.Cat Pisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06605857268530668163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-38740016543110996512008-03-27T09:37:00.000-04:002008-03-27T09:37:00.000-04:00belief that science and 'religion' are incompatibl...belief that science and 'religion' are incompatible is also a "joint belief", there is no logic there either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-45211779563227258012008-01-06T14:36:00.000-05:002008-01-06T14:36:00.000-05:00Plenty of Ph.D. scientists.Name, say, 20, giving t...<I>Plenty of Ph.D. scientists.</I><BR/><BR/>Name, say, 20, giving the fields in which they earned their Ph.D.s and the institutions at which they earned them.<BR/><BR/>Also, Google "Project Steve" to understand just how ignorant you look by making such silly claims.Steve LaBonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315820864846104986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-47830895289804236902008-01-06T12:47:00.000-05:002008-01-06T12:47:00.000-05:00Last comment was made by me.Good week.Last comment was made by me.<BR/><BR/>Good week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-69878055622697893362008-01-06T12:46:00.000-05:002008-01-06T12:46:00.000-05:00YEC and science are incompatible. I'm only an unde...<B>YEC and science are incompatible. I'm only an undergraduate student but who in his/her right mind can possibly consider the notion of this planet being a few thousand years old?<BR/></B><BR/>Plenty of Ph.D. scientists.<BR/><B><BR/>Whether the founding fathers were YECs, atheists, Hindus, Christians, or Satan worshippers is completely irrelevant.<BR/></B><BR/><BR/>No, it isn't. It is one evidence that shows that YEC and science are not enemies, as the atheists want us to believe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-14256203793845151982008-01-06T02:18:00.000-05:002008-01-06T02:18:00.000-05:00YEC and science are incompatible. I'm only an unde...YEC and science are incompatible. I'm only an undergraduate student but who in his/her right mind can possibly consider the notion of this planet being a few thousand years old?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Whether the founding fathers were YECs, atheists, Hindus, Christians, or Satan worshippers is completely irrelevant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-62125776791716134232008-01-05T09:58:00.000-05:002008-01-05T09:58:00.000-05:00That doesn't mean all religious beliefs, of course...<B>That doesn't mean all religious beliefs, of course, because some of them like Young Earth Creationism are not compatible with science.</B><BR/>Depends on how you define "science". If you define it as testing hypothesis with the evidence, then YEC can be in agreement with Science. In fact, as I said many times before in darwinian circles, the fouding fathers of many branches of modern science were.....YECers, <B>not</B> atheists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-39556540328098475712008-01-04T10:29:00.000-05:002008-01-04T10:29:00.000-05:00That position was what I'll call the Doctrine of J...<I>That position was what I'll call the Doctrine of Joint Belief: "Noted Scientist X has accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. Therefore, religion and science are compatible."</I><BR/><BR/>If that were the case, if I could demonstrate that a Jew was an officer in the SS (and I can), I would have proved that Judaism and Nazism were compatible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-49022988225075199442008-01-03T21:35:00.000-05:002008-01-03T21:35:00.000-05:00I think that is incorrect. Religion is a human inv...I think that is incorrect. Religion is a human invention that is definitely not simply all about contradicting science, even if all religions generally contradict it here and there (the "miracles")<BR/>Yes, it is incorrect to say that because scientists can have religion, science and religion must be compatible. All we can say is that the science they make is definitely not motivated by antirreligiosity (for instance, christian evolutionary biologists like Fisher)<BR/>But to conclude for this argument that science is intrinsically incompatible with religion strikes me like saying that pears are incompatible with mammoths.<BR/>At mots this person's argument has merely removed some kind of reserve or celf-censorship he was inflicting upon his desires of complete atheistic self-indulgence.<BR/><BR/>But, he just chaged his mind, so I guess that is similar to declaring it will be frozen in that position for at last a while....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-81482131474420183202008-01-03T15:15:00.000-05:002008-01-03T15:15:00.000-05:00Clay Shirky makes a great point. Going to read hi...Clay Shirky makes a great point. Going to read his piece right now. To put a mathematical spin on it, his doctrine is like saying that a collection of axioms must be compatible when you have produced just one model where all the axioms hold.<BR/><BR/>People like Collins are really just examples of successful compartmentalization, nothing more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com