I think that religion and science are inherently contradictory ways of looking at the world. I have a post on my website, with a longer explanation.
DaveN
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From Ray <[address removed]>
Date: 2014/09/22 08:33 (GMT-06:00)
To [address removed]
Subject Re: [Provocateurs] Science and religion are incompatible.
I think it depends on the religion, and whether it can be flexible enough to accomadate science. Certainly science should not bend to accommodate religion.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:08 PM, David
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Science contradicts religion, Jerry Coyne
Thanks to WRF
I particularly liked the line that scientists are atheists when they are working.
He told the story that Isaac Newton worked out his theories about the motion of the
planets in the solar system. Newton thought that the system was unstable, so, he added in that God did it. God kept the system working. A few years later, mathematician Pierre Simon-LaPlace redid the calculations, and famously said (translated) that he had no need of that hypothesis. The system was stable, without gods of any sort.
Albert Einstein also famously said that God didn't play dice with the universe - he was wrong as well. Quantum mechanics is now well accepted in physics - no gods.
DaveN
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