We have had a member post about the "reconciliation" of science and religion.
To cut through the complete crap that post was likely meant to stir up:
Do you think that by some "miracle" those who invented the tales of gods were either accidentally correct in their fabrications meant to explain reality OR they were provided the true information through some channel denied to or undetected by other people?
Either of these, from a scientific perspective, seem to be extremely remote possibilities, dependent on EXTREMELY specific conditions being true.
Do you see how any any one of the 3000 plus religions over our species existence has a much of a chance of being reconciled with science?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Depends on what is meant by "reconciled". I agree that true reconciliation is impossible, because either invisible beings and realms are falsifiable, or they are not (hint: they aren't). However, some people can pretend they are reconciled or "non-overlapping magisteria". I just don't personally care to put that kind of mental energy into "resolving" cognitive dissonance.
mordant
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Sep 9, 2018
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buddhism, but only because one of the tenets is that if a teaching contradicts observable reality the believer needs to give up the teaching, not the reality.
HereticSin
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Sep 9, 2018
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There are some sects of Buddhism who don't cherry pick this particular teaching, and the only one that has really embraced it openly and publicly to my knowledge, and actually committed to it, is Tibetan Buddhism. And that could change when the current Dali Lama dies.
@mordant true, but it's a better chance than any other religion I can think of. except maybe this particular branch of Noxian that worships her as the knower of secret things. they fucking love science.
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