Originally posted by Dinger
I don't buy it.
I'm not particularly religious, but in my experience the "small minority", today and a thousand years ago, is those who use their faith as an excuse not to explore themselves and the universe.
While I am not a religious person at all, in this particular thread I referred as "small minority" not to "those who use their faith as an excuse not to explore themselves and the universe" but to the top-level scientists (Nobel laureats, etc) who are in the forefront of humanity in exploring the Universe.
Many notable phyisicists, mathematicians and biologists - (including darwinists) are religious people. Darwin himself was a religious person.
To me that proves that Science and Religion do not intesect. The only people who try to mix them together are those literally interpreting the book (whichever one) and staking correctness of theiir religion on whether it explains the workings of the world.
Surely humans would not need such a powerfull brain some of us are equipped with (courtesy of Creator?) if the only goal was just to memorize the Book? In fact, I would expect better memory instead - at least as powerfull as the one the squirrels have.
Also, that is the first I've heard about science requiring to "accept its most basic principles on faith". Any scientific theory may be build on certain assumptions but those assumptions are always questioned and their causes are investigated in turn.
The purpose of a String Theory is (among other things) to explain the weights of the partilces that we so far "took for granted" (just measured them). Never ment that we just believed in those weights but treated them like any other fact to be looked into later.
miko
