tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199920.post7390089433470126508..comments2023-10-20T05:48:35.458-04:00Comments on THE ATHEIST JEW: The Vatican Acknowledges Life May Exist Elsewhere: The ImplicationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199920.post-17199571259065987342008-06-02T07:17:00.000-04:002008-06-02T07:17:00.000-04:00Zeppo, everyone knows that Newton for example was ...Zeppo, everyone knows that Newton for example was a Christian. There were a lot more Gaps back then. Newton was around before Darwin and the Big Bang as well.<BR/>Today, Dr. Ken Miller, a biologist, is a Catholic but was also the key person to defeat ID in Dover.<BR/>There are still scientists who believe in God.<BR/>And yes, no atheist can disprove God, but nobody can disprove Leprechauns or the Tooth Fairy completely either.<BR/>Are we in a realm of belief when it comes to Leprechauns too?<BR/>The fact is that there no evidence for either Leprechauns or God. Except in literature.Baconeaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11134934827966299989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199920.post-64136899785704695022008-06-02T00:22:00.000-04:002008-06-02T00:22:00.000-04:00NewtonEulerCopernicusKeplerGee, by the comments on...<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_religious_views" REL="nofollow">Newton</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Euler" REL="nofollow">Euler</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus" REL="nofollow">Copernicus</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler" REL="nofollow">Kepler</A><BR/><BR/>Gee, by the comments on this blog you'd think no-one who believed in God made important contributions to science.<BR/><BR/>For any premise there are three possible outcomes: proof of truth, proof of falsehood, no proof either way. No atheist can disprove the existence of God. No theist can prove (to a logical certainty) the existence of God. Therefore we are in the realm of belief.zeppohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10626174945053133624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199920.post-61595594646953515972008-05-20T15:48:00.000-04:002008-05-20T15:48:00.000-04:00The good news is that everyday religious fundament...The good news is that everyday religious fundamentalism, is losing influence. Actually the Christian right is to the GOP an albatross.<BR/><BR/>You are correct that the inability of religion to answer questions, has been causing a rebellion. For fundamentalists its been downhill, since the Schiavo affair.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199920.post-37737077371466927652008-05-20T10:47:00.000-04:002008-05-20T10:47:00.000-04:00Don't underestimate the extent and degree to which...Don't underestimate the extent and degree to which various Christian denominations have embraced science, not just now but also in the past. In the case of Catholicism there was a strong scientific revival near the end of the Middle Ages when, largely as a result of the crusades, these Christians learn of the works of Islamic scientists in the early European but Arabic centres of learning. At that point Catholicism discovers and embraces even, the then very advanced subjects of for instance alchemy and astronomy. The works of much earlier ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, hitherto unknown in Europe, also become available to Christian scholars, because the Arabs already had copies of these works and had studied them.<BR/><BR/>Platonian/Aristotelean views on the universe then became part of Catholic dogma, which is exactly why later they fought to exclude the heliocentric view.<BR/><BR/>The Catholic Church has also long since recognised modern cosmology and evolutionary biology, as well as other scientific paradigms, as well as some other less well known and amazing admissions. In public this is a face of the church you won't see so often though.<BR/><BR/>As regards American Protestants of various stripes, it's ironic that the descendents of a European Christian but dissenting movement that thoroughly embraced industriousness, scientific endeavour and truth seeking, has now descended into a parody of itself and which seeks to ally itself with the corridors of power, 'patriotism', half-baked ideas about 'family values' and of course the 'Clash of Civilisations' (or the <I>Great Fizzle</I>, as I like to call it...)<BR/><BR/>Historically, Catholicism's somewhat belated embrace of scientific progress has more to do with competing with Islam than with seeking numbers.Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199920.post-79036519515684656032008-05-18T17:37:00.000-04:002008-05-18T17:37:00.000-04:00It would be funny if extraterrestrials were studyi...It would be funny if extraterrestrials were studying our Earth for the last 20,000 years and could provide documented evidence that Noah's Flood never happened. Some of the YEC Fundies probably still wouldn't believe it.<BR/><BR/>"They're just demons trying to trick us!"Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.com