>> ^DrewNumberTwo:

You can't apply the scientific method to testing something which is, by definition, outside the bounds of logic. It simply doesn't apply.

That which is outside the bounds of logic is, by definition, imaginary.

You can't apply the scientific method to testing something which is, by definition, outside the bounds of logic. It simply doesn't apply.
>> ^Drachen_Jager:

You can believe in God and be a scientist.
You cannot properly apply the scientific method to religion and still believe in God.
So, scientists who believe in God are not as rigorous in their application of science as many of those who do not.
Climate-Change Skeptics claim hundreds of scientists are among their number, even though only five or six of those scientists are actual climatologists. Which shows the problem of narrow-minded scientific exploration in modern science.
Do lots of scientists believe in God. Yes. Is that a bad thing? Yes.

When the church interferes with science, especially in the historical examples where they wielded a lot of power, I consider religion and science to be clashing, instead of coexisting happily. I see your point in making the distinction between church and religion - but when the church interferes in the name of religion I can't consider religion and science to be "coexisting peacefully." Just my 2c

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>> ^carneval:

I love NDT, but I don't agree with his statement that science and religion have been happily coexisting for centuries...
What about (for example) heliocentricity? The church was not too happy with that originally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_science
That article indicates that there were, at some points, synergistic effects between the church and scientific establishment; I think happy coexistence is a major exaggeration, though.


Don't confuse, "the church" with the whole of all religious people. One church for one sect of one religion does not the majority of religious minded people make, which was the whole point

Many of the great thinkers, like Newton and Georg Cantor were not the only influential religious people either, the list is huge. I think there has been times where a person has been singled out, like Galileo, but even he was left to his own devices till he got a little more preachy with his ideas; he was a very blunt man

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>> ^carneval:

I love NDT, but I don't agree with his statement that science and religion have been happily coexisting for centuries...
What about (for example) heliocentricity? The church was not too happy with that originally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_science
That article indicates that there were, at some points, synergistic effects between the church and scientific establishment; I think happy coexistence is a major exaggeration, though.


Don't confuse, "the church" with the whole of all religious people. One church for one sect of one religion does not the majority of religious minded people make, which was the whole point

Many of the great thinkers, like Newton and Georg Cantor were not the only influential religious people either, the list is huge. I think there has been times where a person has been singled out, like Galileo, but even he was left to his own devices till he got a little more preachy with his ideas; he was a very blunt man

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