Originally posted by Blax_Hydralisklook i dunno anymore. ive basically just accepted that the giant purple death squirrel isnt leaving my torch. ive tried bazookas, flame throws, corn nuts, acorns, i let my dog attack it, then threw my dog at it. i never saw here again 🙁
You need to stop wasting your time here and go do something about that squirrel.
i even tried the red spray paint!!
Originally posted by DigiMark007
Before you jump to conclusions about the nature of this thread, I'm actually just sharing something interesting that I found. It has something to appeal to both theists and non-theists.The Templeton Foundation recently sponsored a series of brief essays concerning the titular question. For those who know the Templeton Foundation, they generally harbor some irrationally strong Christian agendas, and I often find their commitment to "science" to be laughable.
Which is why this discovery was refreshing. 13 brief essays, all relatively short and extremely readable, all dealing with this question. But they pool from religious figures, scientists, philosophers, etc. and from both sides of the question. My shock was complete to see names like Stephen Pinker and Michael Shermer among the essayists, renowned free thinkers, skeptics, and atheists. But among them are religious scientists, monks, and experts from the other viewpoint as well.
I've read about 4-5 essays so far and found them fun. Each provides different insights to the question.
http://www.templeton.org/belief/
I'd encourage others to read and share your thoughts.
I don't really think that God and Science deal with the same things and thus nothing about one has a real effect on the other. Of course for people that believe God or Science must somehow be capable of deciding everything independent of the other then there is a conflict which is typically won by Science in debate and God on the free market.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I don't really think that God and Science deal with the same things and thus nothing about one has a real effect on the other. Of course for people that believe God or Science must somehow be capable of deciding everything independent of the other then there is a conflict which is typically won by Science in debate and God on the free market.
See, science has little, if anything, to say about A God. But the theistic gods of earth are gods that have specific rules and influences, which thus have a physical outcome and are testable. Science has plenty to say about those.
That's where I usually make a distinction. Agnostics have little to fear from science. Mainstream theists have plenty.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Science is the art of decoding gods creation.🙂
And I can translate passages from the bible, into passages from all other religions, and into logical statements and into physical equations and into mathematical proofs, through binary analysis. All beliefs are one and the same, ALICE=GOD=BET