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ShadowShank696
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id like to see how many different religons we have on ag
so post ur religon on here

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314d1
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More than once i have been told that i can't believe fully believe in science because I believe in God.


Because it is true.... The ideas of science go totally against your idea of god.
master565
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Because it is true.... The ideas of science go totally against your idea of god.


Which is completely debatable because there are many ways to find God in science.

P.S. Your post also assumes that you know my "idea of God"
Avorne
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There's no need to put God into an already complete circuit, so to speak, if science has the explanation for something then one doesn't just add 'but God was behind it all' and declare themselves superior. Also, you can't fill in gaps in scientific knowledge with God, that'd just be stupid and make him God of the gaps.

MageGrayWolf
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Which is completely debatable because there are many ways to find God in science.


It's usually only inserted when we don't have an answer creating a fallacy, or God of the gaps. This is just claiming to know what we don't know. This at worse can lead to a restriction of gaining actual knowledge of the events.
Otherwise God is pointless. it would be like saying we have gravity to answer why we stay on the ground but it's also magic pixies holding us down. (replace magic pixies with God)
Avorne
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it would be like saying we have gravity to answer why we stay on the ground but it's also magic pixies holding us down. (replace magic pixies with God)


Well, I don't know about that Mage, but apparently Jesus is gravity.

Anyway, I've always found it rather amusing that religious people claim that God is responsible for something that we can't explain and then once we find the proper scientific explanation for it they talk about how God is behind it, it's a desperate tactic on their part.
master565
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it would be like saying we have gravity to answer why we stay on the ground but it's also magic pixies holding us down. (replace magic pixies with God)


Or it could be like saying God created gravity and all the other laws of physics.
MageGrayWolf
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Or it could be like saying God created gravity and all the other laws of physics.


Which essentially goes back to a God of the gaps argument.
master565
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Which essentially goes back to a God of the gaps argument.


I'm not aware of what that is.
Einfach
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I'm not aware of what that is.

It's trying to substitute God for whatever you can't explain.
master565
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It's trying to substitute God for whatever you can't explain.


Well as easy as it is to do that, you can also stick God into stuff we do understand. We understand a lot about nature and we can still say God is behind that.
Avorne
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Yes but there's no point in introducing an unnecessary and extraneous element into things we already know work.

Einfach
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Yes but there's no point in introducing an unnecessary and extraneous element into things we already know work.

Exactly - it's not parsimonious.
master565
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As much as we can argue about where God is and isn't, the whole point was i can find God in science wether you can or can't (which, due to you disbelief in God, you can't)

Einfach
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As much as we can argue about where God is and isn't, the whole point was i can find God in science wether you can or can't (which, due to you disbelief in God, you can't)

Isn't this like a conspiracy theorist saying:

"As much as we can argue about the moon landing, the whole point is that I can find a conspiracy in the events whether you can or can't (which, due to your disbelief, you can't)"
MRWalker82
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As much as we can argue about where God is and isn't, the whole point was i can find God in science wether you can or can't (which, due to you disbelief in God, you can't)


This claim is incompatible with any current world religion that I know of. Science is merely a way of observing reality, testing it, and finding out the facts about it. If we can find God in science then we would have to have a way to observe, test, and demonstrate the validity of God. The fact that we do not means that we cannot find God in science. Perhaps some day we may develop a method which allows us to, but as it is now it simply is not possible. If anything, you are finding God, not in science, but in spite of, science.
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