no real point here, just a funny thought popped in my head as i was reading yet another thread where people were being hammered with scientific facts and theories and i was nodding my head agreeing with the rational fact based explination when a thought occured to me: i take quite a bit of science on "faith".. what i mean is this, when i am reading the explination of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or molecular biology i have to take it on faith as i can't do the mathematical proofs and so on to verify what i am being told and i assume that is the case with most of us non-rocket scientists, and probably even many in the fields of science and technology.
i like science, i enjoy reading discovery magazine and trying to keep up on the latest techno advancements, but i realized how much of it i take on "faith" as i have no way to verify or disprove what i am being told by a scientist.
i recall einstein saying once that something like 6 people in the world truly understood the implications of his work.. so if you want to argue "faith", i'd say that many that believe in science have just as much faith as those that believe in religion.
The thing is though scientists have huge egos so if a scientist comes up with a theory there will always be other scientists who will peer review his/her work and would critique it heavily if wrong - so science is to a large degree self-policing
Don't be so sure. Most of the higher level stuff can't even be done by most scientists. It reminds me of a news story a while back where a physicist got a huge grant and wrote a paper. Unfortunately, it turned out that he made the whole thing up and it took quite a while before someone realized it.
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
fascism and communism should be done away with too. so? fine. religion, communism and fascism should be done away with. their track records are horrid.
So does science. Torturing thousands of animals, doing unethical experiments on people, developing the thermonuclear bomb. Science has a horrible track record and should be done away with.
Don't forget all those scientists who impeded the work of other scientists out of competition and thereby causing the ignorance of the masses.
the eschatological discourse in matthew 24 (derived from mark 13 and paralleled in luke 21) concerns the destruction of jerusalem and what was to shortly follow it.
mark presents both the jerusalem invasion and the coming of the son of man in judgment as closely connected, which reflects the time when the gospel was likely written (i.e.
The so-called New Testament is attested to by 5,000 Greek manuscripts. As any textual critic or honest scholar will tell you: it is a stark fact that NO TWO MANUSCRIPTS AGREE in every detail.
You of all people should know that where they do disagree, it is usually pretty insignificant and doesn't affect doctrine and most of the changess over the ages were small, usually adding "Christ" after "Jesus" (the Comma Ioanneum is the largest addition I can think of, although there are the disputed parts of Mark).
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
Pope ALexander VI better know as Rodrigo Borgia , divided the world for conquest between Spain and Portugal - I feel you are woefully ignorant of the Catholic Church's past
I was actually making that statement in reference to a particular city in South America which had been built by the Jesuits, became wealthy and prosperous, but then the Spanish moved in and took it for themselves.
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
i certainly do not need to round up some source that shows the corelation between religious doctrine and human suffering.
Abuses always creep in where humans are involved, but you make the illogical jump that because of those abuses, religion should be done away with. For example, Hitler's scientists did horrible experiments on many people and they participated in killing many in the concentration camps: does that mean that all scientists are tainted by the actions of a minority or that all science should be thrown away.
Atheism has also killed millions. Stalin alone cause the death of 10 million people. Does that mean that all atheists are assholes who spread ignorance and murder?
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
well, maybe if the catholic church had behaved in a christian manner all those years, and minded her own business instead of proselytizing the world spreading fear, guilt and ignorance, we would not have so many problems.
Is that just rhetoric, or can you show they've done all that? I've found through Church history, that the religious orders are the ones trying to keep the colonializers from screwing up, like the Jesuits who tried to keep the Conquistidors from murdering millions.
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
what does it matter? you tell me. you're a catholic, aren't you? anyways, does it matter what the current market-share of catholicism is? catholic atrocities started the moment they sent the first bloody preist there.
You're the one who's blaming Africa's ills on Catholicism.
I find it amazing that people blame the spread of AIDS on Catholicism's teaching when if those people who contribute to the spread of AIDS actually followed Catholic teaching in the first place, they wouldn't be in that situation (that is, unless they married someone with AIDS).
the eschatological discourse in matthew 24 (derived from mark 13 and paralleled in luke 21) concerns the destruction of jerusalem and what was to shortly follow it.
mark presents both the jerusalem invasion and the coming of the son of man in judgment as closely connected, which reflects the time when the gospel was likely written (i.e.
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
