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Edited by Mad Max: 7/30/2013 3:10:14 AM
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Are science and religion compatible?

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Personally, I find the idea of simultaneous support for both religion and science wholly incompatible. Here's my thought process: - Scientists support the [url=http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/overview_scientific_method2.gif]scientific method[/url]. - Faith-based religion conflicts with the scientific method, as religion skips/ignores steps in the scientific method. - One cannot support the scientific method while simultaneously supporting faith-based religion. One cannot truly support both science and religion; you're compromising your support in one or the other. Thoughts? Explain your position.

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  • Edited by Ouch: 7/30/2013 3:35:13 AM
    "Faith-based religion" is redundant, as religion is not religion without the element of faith. Rather, religion without faith is philosophy (atheistic Buddhism, for instance, but it would have to include lack of belief in the devas). Anyway, I've always found this question to be rather pointless and it has been created for the sole purpose of giving the religious atheist a way to evangelize. One might believe by faith that JFK was killed as a result of a conspiracy by some in government and have little to no proof for it - this hardly means that the individual is incapable of being rational about things, and for that matter, would discard his belief in the JFK conspiracy given convincing evidence that undermined it. Mind you, if at any point a religious doctrine contradicts formal logic and by extension, science, then the latter always objectively takes precedence. In short, believing in creationism is incompatible with science; believing in god(s) is not, because the latter is not a scientific claim.

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