"scientism"?
The anti-science lobby are so hypocritical. You remind me of somebody preaching vegetarianism while munching a hamburger.
When did Theology Last add something to Human Knowledge?
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slimboyfat
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Terry
slimboyfat says: You don't think scientism is merely the ruling ideology then?
Hang on while I look that word up! (dum te dum....te dumdum......te dum....ahhhh! Lessee here....mmmm hmmmm....mmm hmmmm...okay!)
For me, the advantage which science confers is the part that deals with...TESTING our hypothesis and changing what proves to be error.
Theology does NOT TEST knowledge---it tests BELIEF in what purports to be knowledge.
The provisional nature of "knowledge" is something that leaves the door open to further discovery rather than engraving what is known in stone
irrevocably.
Religion has proved to be a means of holding on to what has been disproved, improved, nullified, replaced, etc.
That is dangerous and unhealthy.
If your doctor uses medical books from centuries ago which tell him exactly how draining the "bad humours" from the body through bloodletting will improve your health---well, I can't say I can admire your physician for his exactitude in view of the advances of modern science beyond thewritten page!
Theology is hermetic, insular and intransigent.
How many of those 613 laws of Moses do we follow today because their "divine" origin SURPASS science, medicine, technology?
What we can get from theology which is helpful is a discipline and a framework and a foundation which provides a platform for FURTHER study.
I view the Bible as incremental efforts by sincere, well-meaning men of faith who "improved" texts by changing them so that WE could understand
as they did. Nobody deliberately lied, falsified or corrupted on purpose. It was the path of "good intentions."
Theology is a heap of good intentions which smother the intellect in a dung heap of expired human fallibility.