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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Some people may try to say that Christianity and science are at odds, but they are not. They are just trying to answer different questions. Science tries to answer "how...?" and Christianity (or other religions) try to answer the question "Why...?" As a Christian, I wish more of us would realize this. Science doesn't really care about "Why?", and religion shouldn't really care about "How?", unfortunately, WAY to many Christians are concerned with "How?". It ticks me off sometimes.
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I disagree - I think gods and religion were invented by primitive people to explain what was not understood at the time. For instance, volcanic eruptions were caused by vengeful volcano gods, and could be prevented by the sacrifice of virgins. We now know this is ridiculous, because of scientific discovery on how volcanoes work.
Every religion tries to explain "why", but the religious texts are also full of the "how". Unfortunately, religion tends to answer the "how" questions incorrectly. The earth is more than 6000-odd years old, the earth does resolve around the sun, and pi does not equal 3, all in contradiction to the Bible. The Koran and other religious texts are similarly filled with errors. Believers in biblical inerrancy gloss over these contradictions, and assume that science is incorrect. I don't know about you, but I would not want to drive over a bridge designed by a Christian engineer who decides that pi=3 based on 1 Kings 7:23.