Quote: wannabuyamonkey said: [We should respect science. <snip the rest of the attempt at humor>
The beauty of science is that it allows humans to update and refine their understanding of the universe (one of my professors used to refer to science as a descending set of concentric cirlces, with each circle slightly smaller than the one before it, as we move toward and refine Knowledge). Science is not advanced as the "inspired word" of any deity. It doesn't even assert that you're a heretic if you don't believe in it.
But every generatio seems to treat the claims of science as though, "we're sure this time they got it right!" And in alot of ways you may not be called a heritic, but you are assumed to be a religious zealot or "irrational" or "stupid" so they may not use the term heritic, but they have other words that imply pretty much the same thing. I mean look at the evolution in scools debate and where it's come too. Not only is there an uproar anytime someone suggests teaching an opposing scientific view to evolution, but they don't even want sticker communicating what the teachers SHOULD but aren't teaching wich is that evolution is an unprovan theory. I think that if a highschool science teacher openly questioned evolution he would be run out on a rail much like the heritics of old.
Putting the "fun" back in Fundamentalist Christian Dogma.
" I know God exists because WBAM told me so. " - theory9
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