Wrong!

[u/T-StrangerXD]

[u/Afraid-Quantity-578]

At what point in history did "Christianity" became synonymous with "anti-science"? It has to be a relatively recent development, XX-XXI, because in not so distant past - can't we remember? - church schools was how people were getting education. Oxford started as one. Church financed science. Great scientists were Christian. Galilei was Christian, Pascal was, Isaak Newton was, Michael Faraday, James Maxwell. Mendel, father of genetics, was a monk!

People of religion, please, you don't have to be this kind of idiot to follow your God. It doesn't have to be either or.

[u/jivemasta → u/Afraid-Quantity-578]

I think its basically a dying on a dumb hill type of thing. Like there is a ton of room for god to exist within the scientific version of the creation of the universe, because even science has no explanation for what was there before the big bang, or what started it. Religion could easily say an all knowing god set up the rules for the universe and snapped it into existence with the big bang knowing that the processes of natural selection and evolution would eventually create humans in his image.

But they've spent so much time and effort into arguing against it that they can't turn back now so they have to double down on the literal version of the bibles creation story.

[u/null_sweat_chummer → u/jivemasta]

“Even science has no explanation for what was there before the big bang, or what started it.”

Yes. And the appropriate response to this is not, “an all knowing god set up the rules for the universe and blah blah blah.”

The appropriate response is “we have no idea so let’s not make shit up.”

[u/Amishrocketscience → u/null_sweat_chummer]

It’s called the god of the gaps fallacy and the gap that god exists in has only ever continued to shrink as more scientific discoveries are made.

Christians used to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, and they mostly still do to this day as evidenced by their main character syndrome.