Yeah. It’s actually really shit because they take one of the most important fundamental parts of science (admitting flaws and uncertainty) and attempt to use it as a way to attack it.
I actually think the more subtle stuff like that is more damaging. While the “god put fossils there to test our faith” takes can more easily be undone.
Fully agreed. Science is not perfect, and that’s kind of the point. If a better theory with more evidence comes to light and disproves a current idea, they’ll accept it. Religion works the opposite way, they expect people to believe on pure faith, with no evidence. Then they try to play scientist by using fallacies like “it’s just too complex! It’s so unlikely” while hiding the fact that they have even less evidence on their side.
I don’t know why religion hates service so much. The amount of questions out there is infinite. We will never know all of the answers. Regina Spektor has an amazing line in one of her songs that says “each time a theory proves the mystery just moves”. I think about that a lot. For every answer we get there’s another question. We discover the atom. What’s smaller than that? We discover the electron. Well what’s smaller than that?.
So God isn’t literally above the sky because we discover space. Well what’s beyond space? So maybe the earth started with the big bang. What happened before that?? Religion still definitely has a place, and if they think more broadly beyond their literal interpretation it actually still works very well.
Yeah. Despite my upbringing I’m not against religion. I think it has its place for people. I just think it is extremely destructive when used for a method of control for right wing reactionary hierarchies. Which is why I advocate against reactionary ideologies and not any specific religion. As someone that grew up in a Christian cult in the deep South I find it’s really odd when those same people will fearmonger against Muslims and “Sharia Law!”. It’s like, dude, you guys literally advocate for the equivalent of “Christian” Sharia Law every day. Stop trying to “cure” gay and trans kids.
Yeah. It’s actually really shit because they take one of the most important fundamental parts of science (admitting flaws and uncertainty) and attempt to use it as a way to attack it.
I actually think the more subtle stuff like that is more damaging. While the “god put fossils there to test our faith” takes can more easily be undone.
Fully agreed. Science is not perfect, and that’s kind of the point. If a better theory with more evidence comes to light and disproves a current idea, they’ll accept it. Religion works the opposite way, they expect people to believe on pure faith, with no evidence. Then they try to play scientist by using fallacies like “it’s just too complex! It’s so unlikely” while hiding the fact that they have even less evidence on their side.
I don’t know why religion hates service so much. The amount of questions out there is infinite. We will never know all of the answers. Regina Spektor has an amazing line in one of her songs that says “each time a theory proves the mystery just moves”. I think about that a lot. For every answer we get there’s another question. We discover the atom. What’s smaller than that? We discover the electron. Well what’s smaller than that?.
So God isn’t literally above the sky because we discover space. Well what’s beyond space? So maybe the earth started with the big bang. What happened before that?? Religion still definitely has a place, and if they think more broadly beyond their literal interpretation it actually still works very well.
Yeah. Despite my upbringing I’m not against religion. I think it has its place for people. I just think it is extremely destructive when used for a method of control for right wing reactionary hierarchies. Which is why I advocate against reactionary ideologies and not any specific religion. As someone that grew up in a Christian cult in the deep South I find it’s really odd when those same people will fearmonger against Muslims and “Sharia Law!”. It’s like, dude, you guys literally advocate for the equivalent of “Christian” Sharia Law every day. Stop trying to “cure” gay and trans kids.