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Re: State Your Religion
Old 07-06-2006, 12:27 AM   #19
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I am a Deist, meaining I believe in one God, not unlike many of my nation's founding fathers.

Now as we see this topic wildly turning off course into a pro-religion vs. anti-religion slime fest (yet again, I swear Bond makes these just to rile people up), I will simply broach one question: Why do science and religion have to be separate and divisive? I mean, they are really alike in most ways.

Most of science's facts are in actuality theories, which we accept on faith. Yes, it is faith in man's empirical knowledge of the subject, but it still unproven. Just like religion.

Many of science's real facts and "rules" have been disproven on numerous occassions, yet we don't throw them out. EX. Electrons jump levels at times and places where it defies the laws of physics... the laws of physics... yet we still recognize them even though they are not absolute.

Personally, I think it is the peak of arrogance to just throw away one theory of the univers that has been tested by faith and number over thousands of years for science that is both young and constantly correcting itself for its constant errors. But then again, I guess that requires a different kind of faith, so its all the same really.
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