What is the Most Incredible Fact You Can Post Here?

[roamer_1]

How do you square science and religion? I believe in both in parts, but sometimes they conflict.

I don't put very much faith in science. I think what we don't know completely outweighs what we think we do know, to the point of negation. Science is comparable to a two year old playing around in his daddy's shop.

The thing with the most distance, really the thing we have to compare with, is only written history... What has come before. I will always give that more weight than science.

Science comes and goes... First, they tell us to use margarine, because butter is bad for you... Nearly fifty years later, margarine is cancer causing, and you should use butter.

How do you continue to lend that credence?

[roamer_1]

There is a pure thing called religion, that no one can practice.

There is also a pure thing called science, that no one can practice.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I don't put very much faith in science. I think what we don't know completely outweighs what we think we do know, to the point of negation. Science is comparable to a two year old playing around in his daddy's shop.

The thing with the most distance, really the thing we have to compare with, is only written history... What has come before. I will always give that more weight than science.

Science comes and goes... First, they tell us to use margarine, because butter is bad for you... Nearly fifty years later, margarine is cancer causing, and you should use butter.

How do you continue to lend that credence?

Hard science yes. Politicized/pop science, no.

On the other hand there's wisdom and beauty in religion, and also historically there corruption and hypocrisy and ignorance. Christianity is a beautiful religion, and i only came into it through my love of Roman history despite theoretically being a christian.

The two occupy space in my mind at the same time and there is a conflict there.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

There is a pure thing called religion, that no one can practice.

There is also a pure thing called science, that no one can practice.

We practice science very day. We are able to survive diseases we once could not because of science.

[Hoodat]

I look at science this way.  You can take 12 physical constants of nature (e.g. Planck's constant, Boltzmann's constant, the loss of mass from hydrogen fusion to helium, etc.) and you can represent them as dials on a biosphere called 'the universe'.  If you turn any of the twelve dials and change adjust the value of a number by 1%, the universe as we know it ceases to exist.

It took an absolute Genius to come up with those numbers.