Does Science Agree With the Bible?

[AV1611VET]

One of the biggest reasons we have pollution is because of religion. Engineering may have created a machine to be built to do some kind of work, but the person paying for it is the one who didn't care about the pollution it created.

Now you could argue this is a product of capitalism or corporatism, but much like climate change, pollution, a mountain of plastic in the oceans, it takes a mentality of ignoring reality on Earth. When you have a religious doctrine that nothing in the material world matters, and only the supernatural, jeebus jeebus jeebus, heaven and hell, and nothing on Earth really matters, why would you care how much about how much you destroy?

Mix the Christian mindset and the industrial age and you created an entire mentality of other people don't matter, exploit everyone and anything you want, because all that matters is the after life. Sure, get on your knees now and pray, give some money to the church to buy your way in, but nothing here matters so destroy all you want. Climate change? I'll be in heaven by then. Workers dying on toxic waste? They'll go to heaven. Water supply being poisoned? Who cares.

Ya.

You can always tell a born again highway patrolman from one who isn't.

Just throw a couple of bags of McDonald's trash out the window as you pass one and see if he chases you.

 

[digitalgoth]

Ya.

You can always tell a born again highway patrolman from one who isn't.

Just throw a couple of bags of McDonald's trash out the window as you pass one and see if he chases you.

You can certainly tell the one who wants to meet ticket quotas and increase law enforcement revenues.

 

[AV1611VET]

You can certainly tell the one who wants to meet ticket quotas and increase law enforcement revenues.

Well there's nothing like an atheist highway patrolman chasing a Christian, who threw two bags of McDonald's trash out the window in front of him, down the highway so he can get his quota of tickets in, is there?

We're so persecuted!

 

[Subduction Zone]

Big deal.

So does the Pope.

Good point. There is no conflict between the theory of evolution and Christianity. The Catholics have learned from their mistakes, it is rather amazing that the fundamentalists in the U.S. are unable to do so.

 

[digitalgoth]

Well there's nothing like an atheist highway patrolman chasing a Christian, who threw two bags of McDonald's trash out the window in front of him, down the highway so he can get his quota of tickets in, is there?

We're so persecuted!

Actually I was not meaning it was a christian or atheist thing, I was meaning it was a cop thing. 'Twas a bon mot.

That having been said, this doesn't argue against the socio-political situation that exists because of Abrahamic religion's eye on heavenly rewards, allowing a who-cares-it'll-work-itself-out-just-dump-it-in-the-river mentality that allows for the destruction of the environment.

 

[dad]

dad, work on your logic skills. Babies are what human organism are called after birth. It is illegal go kill babies. There are several terms that you can use before birth but "babies" is not one of them. By doing to you are using a loaded term and that is not very honest. A Christian should strive to be unquestionable in ones honesty (something that most atheists learned long ago when they debate, that is why Christians often end up looking so bad when they debate with them, honesty is a policy that will help you debate).



No problem. As soon as you acknowledge your error.

Abortion is diobolical murder. I do not care what you think.

 

[dad]

You cut and pasted a list of scientists who lived before Darwin's discovery. Since Young Earth creationism was invented in the early 1900s, none of those scientists would qualitify. And Mendel and Pasteur accepted evolution.

Maybe you shouldn't blindly cut and past from dishonest websites.

They belived in spirits and creation. They count.

 

[dad]

Sure, but they did well is spite of that. Their various religions may have been less important to their work than that they wore pants.

? What is this obsession with pants?

 

[dad]

One of the biggest reasons we have pollution is because of religion. Engineering may have created a machine to be built to do some kind of work, but the person paying for it is the one who didn't care about the pollution it created.

Now you could argue this is a product of capitalism or corporatism, but much like climate change, pollution, a mountain of plastic in the oceans, it takes a mentality of ignoring reality on Earth. When you have a religious doctrine that nothing in the material world matters, and only the supernatural, jeebus jeebus jeebus, heaven and hell, and nothing on Earth really matters, why would you care how much about how much you destroy?

Mix the Christian mindset and the industrial age and you created an entire mentality of other people don't matter, exploit everyone and anything you want, because all that matters is the after life. Sure, get on your knees now and pray, give some money to the church to buy your way in, but nothing here matters so destroy all you want. Climate change? I'll be in heaven by then. Workers dying on toxic waste? They'll go to heaven. Water supply being poisoned? Who cares.

Don't hold up your environmental god to me.

 

[Michael]

Good point. There is no conflict between the theory of evolution and Christianity. The Catholics have learned from their mistakes, it is rather amazing that the fundamentalists in the U.S. are unable to do so.

Hey, we actually agree on something.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Abortion is diobolical murder. I do not care what you think.

And yet it was okay under certain conditions in the Old Testament. And no, it is not murder. You can't even support that with the Bible. Again, the best that you will be able to do is to quote the Bible out of context.

 

[Subduction Zone]

They belived in spirits and creation. They count.

Nope, creationism is a denial of science. It could not even exist until after the theory of evolution came around. You might as well say that Newton was a denier of quantum dynamics and relativity too. Once again dad, you need to work on your logic skills.

 

[AV1611VET]

Actually I was not meaning it was a christian or atheist thing, I was meaning it was a cop thing. 'Twas a bon mot.

That having been said, this doesn't argue against the socio-political situation that exists because of Abrahamic religion's eye on heavenly rewards, allowing a who-cares-it'll-work-itself-out-just-dump-it-in-the-river mentality that allows for the destruction of the environment.

For the record, I won't even throw a popsicle stick on the ground.

 

[AV1611VET]

Hey, we actually agree on something.

Dawkins disagrees.

 

[AV1611VET]

And no, it is not murder.

Only because Satan's family got the term "babe in the womb" plutoed to "fetus."

 

[Davian]

? What is this obsession with pants?

It's your list. You tell me.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Only because Satan's family got the term "babe in the womb" plutoed to "fetus."

Nope, sorry never happened.

Once again, using of loaded terms is not honest. A Christian should avoid doing so.

 

[dad]

And yet it was okay under certain conditions in the Old Testament. And no, it is not murder. You can't even support that with the Bible. Again, the best that you will be able to do is to quote the Bible out of context.

Pony up the verse.

 

[dad]

It's your list. You tell me.

Let's simplify for you...smart men of science were believers. .moving on.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Pony up the verse.

As soon as you own up to your error. I made your error more than clear.