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Are you serious? If anything is pitting itself against something, it is the religious trying to suppress knowledge in order to prop up their superstitions.
by RexRollman 14y ago
Are you serious? If anything is pitting itself against something, it is the religious trying to suppress knowledge in order to prop up their superstitions.
- rosser 14y agoDawkins? EDIT: In order to avoid simply offering a flippant (if true) one-word reply, let me also say that your comment is as guilty of painting with an overly broad brush as the GP comment. Some religious folk are anti-science. Some scientists are rabidly anti-religious. Most of both are neither. There are just a lot more religious people than there are scientists, and religion tends to lend itself towards being a pulpit for extreme views more readily than science. Coupling those facts, of course it's going to seem like religion wants to beat science up and leave it for dead.
- tokipin 14y agothe important difference, i think, is that in our culture science argues through its own coherence, whereas religion, devoid of coherence, argues and manifests itself through politics. coherence is a stronger case, but politics is a bigger stick
- littlegiantcap 14y agoWhich of course is the reason that the Vatican keeps teams of scientist on hand that includes over 5 Nobel laurites. It's almost like painting us religious people with broad strokes is as backwards and ignorant as making general statements about "blacks" or "homosexuals".
- mattgreenrocks 14y agoShh, that isn't helping the persecution complex any! Seriously, both religious and scientific folk need to get over themselves on this schtick. Policy moves forward at a glacial pace because culture abhors all change, and regularly seeks the path of least resistance.