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Originally Posted by speede5
So what your saying is none of the discussion on Big Bang and Evolution was meant to infer there is no God. Quoting noted athiests such as Carl Sagan and George Carlin was just coincidental. I apologize for being on the defensive then. I had to laugh about our discussion when I read this on CNN today. http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/2...ism/index.html |
I'm saying that BBT and evolution aren't intended to infer there is no god. However because they are natural explanations for natural phenomenon one could view that as pushing God aside, but science has been doing that since it came about.. no one thinks their computers are powered mystically by divine power.
I don't see anywhere in that article that says Big Bang theory and Evolution were established to prove there was no God, or even that those theories demonstrate that there is no God. Dawkins doesn't even say it, he only goes so far as to say science and religion undermine each other, which I would agree with to a point, though I don't think they necessarily have to (it would require a pretty big change in religion though).
If one's view of God is that God created man as he is today, then yes evolution would be contradictory to that, but that's not science's fault... People have reinterpreted holy scripture in many religions based on new scientific understanding, new moral understanding, etc. Letting go of special creation and a 6000 year old earth is no different than letting go of slavery or letting go of a geocentric solar system.