--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > His father had promised him a car for his birthday. Dad was > nowhere > > in sight. His mother gave him 5.00$, yet what he had received > was a > > grace from God that on his birthday the sun and the birds awakened > > him, the sweet smells of the divine filled the air and he knew > without > > a doubt that there had to be a God and that God just gave him the > > greatest birthday gift ever................. > > > > > > So following this weather based theology we can assume that God > > absolutely hates China and dropped a huge earthquake on it's ass > and > > despises Burma and sent them a nasty cyclone? > > > > It seems a little grandiose and narcissistic to me to attribute a > > day's weather to God's intention to give him a bitch'n birthday > while > > his same power over the weather is causing untold misery and death > in > > other places. > <snip> > > I think we as humans like to look for patterns and extrapolate our > intelligence onto nature. Whether we do it through a belief in God > or in science, the motive is the same, and either belief remains > full of holes when viewed superficially. >
I don't think the motive is the same, opposite in fact. I sum it up as; Religion claims to explain reality whereas science is an *attempt* to explain experience. You have to remove projection to do science it wouldn't work otherwise, you have to keep challenging things or you never progress. If a creationist ends up in the White house you could have "intelligent design" taught to kids and instantly their education stops because of the limit a religious belief has insisted be put on discovery. Not in the spirit of science at all as spotting where the holes are in a theory is how it all moves on.
