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Re: The atheistic debates.
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Post # 11
Science and religion are not mutually exclusive, nor is science the antithesis of Christianity (as I see a lot of people treat it). We live in a day and age where we can accept that science is based on repetitive results that always come out the same way and helps us begin to understand the physical world around as as well as recognizing that religious belief can be had at the same time.
I'm a Norse Pagan and evolution does not discredit my "creation" story because it is not seen as a physically literal event, but more of a metaphor or a spiritual event that had no direct impact on physical reality. I would be pushing my belief on you if I tried to tell you that everything was created by the collision of Niflheimr and Muspelheimr because that is just a belief, regardless of if I consider it to be physically literal (especially so, if I were); the inverse is not true because science is based on getting the same results every time and it hasn't changed no matter what people believe. The only thing about science that changes is our growing understanding of it.
It's actually really dangerous to ignore science.
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Re: The atheistic debates.
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Post # 12
You are right, science is enlightening and reliable because as you just stated it is based on the scientific method. But the following is also true considering the theory of evolution: it is incomplete (has missing links) and keeps changing timelines with the discovery of new fossils. The theory is still great and accurate on the order of the appearance of species. It is dangerous to ignore science indeed.

Now the atheists/antitheists use the theory as proof that there is no creator, which I have no problem with but there are creationists who understand and accept evolution. So the atheists/antitheists should not force everyone especially the young into their views.
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