acmilan said:
OK Bone577, you cannot say that only about Christians because Scientists continually adapt, change and reinterpret their ideas as new evidence and advances emerge, its so obvious that as time changes interpretations change. Science was against evolution at first, science was against Earth not being the centre at first. Christians, nor any other monotheistic religion, did not state HOW the Earth was created, i think you are missing the most important point, that God created it, how He did it isnt up to Christians to discover. Creation has long been accepted as a myth to simply explain to the people that God created Earth.
Leap of faith, dogma, blind faith, accepted truths. These are parts of mainstream religion. The acceptance of word as fact, rigid and unchangable.
This is not part of science. Science is an ever changing set of theories and laws, with no dogma. Old ones can be thrown out and new ones accepted if the evidence is there. No leap of faith is ever made, laws and theories are accepted as the best ones currently available never as a definite truth.
This is why your comparison is a moot point. Since the religion cannot simply adapt soo easily, and rewrite its texts, it must instead claim alternate interpretation where no alternate interpretation was ever intended. The writers of the Bible i am sure never expected the words to be taken as anything but literal. But in the face of science changes where made.
This consists of the formation of seperate sects of a religion, so as to adhere to modern values and substantiated laws and theories of science.
In this sense science is a religion, but without any form of dogma, where everything is open to complete revision and discussion.
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