zk: In a previous post, you asserted that ALL religions were a “fantasy”. Not SOME or CERTAIN, but ALL. That’s a dogmatic assertion. Interestingly, as someone who believes in empiricism and observable phenomena, that’s a position you cannot PROVE. [/quote]
Forgive me for not saying, “in my opinion.” I didn’t really think it was necessary to say that.
In my opinion, ALL religions are a fantasy. Just because ALL religions are included does not make that statement dogmatic.
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
Here’s the point I was trying to make: Faith and Reason are not incompatible. You referenced astronomy (spherical Earth) and microbiology (bacteria) in a previous post. Some of the greatest research in those areas has been performed by people of faith. Did their faith or beliefs get in the way of their research? It doesn’t appear so. If you were to remove the body of work from just the Catholic scientists, researchers, doctors, etc, you would take away a staggering amount from science. [/quote]
If, by your statement that faith and reason are not incompatible, you mean that many people of faith are great scientists, and that people of faith can also be reasonable (about other things than their faith), then of course I agree. I don’t think I said or implied otherwise. If you mean that faith is reasonable, then I don’t agree.
