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The Religious/Atheist/Agnostic/Deist/ Theism/Science? and Poll

The Religious/Atheist/Agnostic/Deist/ Theism/Science?


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The Religious/Atheist/Agnostic/Deist/ Theism/Science?
I am an Atheist
I am Agnostic
I believe in a Creator –Theism
I am a Deist
Science and Religious belief can coexist
Science and Religious belief cannot coexist


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While I am atheist, I do not think that religion and science are necessarily contradictory.
 
Atheist. Science and religion regularly co-exist, though one can be forgiven for thinking otherwise when fundamentalist religious people who are regularly threatened by science are also the loudest in the media.
 
Atheist. Science and religion regularly co-exist, though one can be forgiven for thinking otherwise when fundamentalist religious people who are regularly threatened by science are also the loudest in the media.

Christian, screwed up and missed the vote where both can and must coexist.
Some with religion believe the world is 6 K old.
For those that believe such clap trap, why did Noah not add them to the Arks passenger listing.
 
Atheist.

No beef with religion (faith) except where it's used as a vehicle for bigotry.
 
Atheist here and while science and religion can coexist in some areas, they certainly cannot in all areas and that's mostly the fault of religion, not science.
 
I am an agnostic atheist and I believe science and religion can coexist through the wonders of compartmentalization.
 
Science and philosophy can co-exist just fine. But science destroys exploitative and bigoted power structures that are based on silly myths.
 
Christian, screwed up and missed the vote where both can and must coexist.
Some with religion believe the world is 6 K old.
For those that believe such clap trap, why did Noah not add them to the Arks passenger listing.

I think those people are too far gone to be reasoned with.
 
I'm an atheist, and I believe that science and religion can certainly coexist. Not for everyone, but for a lot of religious people certainly.
 
The Religious/Atheist/Agnostic/Deist/ Theism/Science?
I am an Atheist
I am Agnostic
I believe in a Creator –Theism
I am a Deist
Science and Religious belief can coexist
Science and Religious belief cannot coexist


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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein. I believe that science & religion are two different ways of viewing the world in which we live. Each has a distinct viewpoint. They are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I believe they are complementary.
 
Religion and science can co-exist, but only if you don't believe in the magical aspects of religion. I was an atheist Buddhist for about one month. More precisely, I subscribed to the psychological translation of Buddhism.
 
All major religions are for the weak and/or the ignorant and/or the desperate.

All 'God clubs' are a complete and total waste of time.
 
Can't vote. Religion and science are not mutually exclusive. They are not really supposed to be.
 
All major religions are for the weak and/or the ignorant and/or the desperate.

All 'God clubs' are a complete and total waste of time.

Spoken like a weak man afraid of religion.
 
Atheist.

I cannot understand how anybody who knows anything, almost at all, can read any religious thing and not consider it obvious drivel.

Edit; You can have atheist religions; Communism and Nazism for example. But even here having a skeptical mind gets rid of the drivel.
 
Of course science and religion can coexist, but first religion has to fulfill a few conditions: a) Religion has to start using methodology to find on ground evidence for its major claims (i.e., starting from existence of "God"), b) should be more open minded and drop their dogmatic approach to knowledge, and c) religion should consider dropping concepts as well as their theories if there is no actual empirical evidence to support their claims.
 
All major religions are for the weak and/or the ignorant and/or the desperate.

All 'God clubs' are a complete and total waste of time.

But even so, religion can co-exist under the conditions stated above, right? ;)
 
The biggest problem with this discussion is that it assumes that religion and science are opposites. That science and religion are modes of thinking. They aren't.

Religion is one thing. Science is another. Look at it this way: you can go to a bible study and a science class in the same day. You can go to English class and science class. Or art class and science class. Just because you do one thing NOT using the scientific method...doesn't mean you don't understand scientific method.

I'm religious. I always have been. I got good grades in science too. Even went to the state science fair. Didn't win there (I won't my school and regional fairs), but then again...I didn't do my project on microbiology. I went because I was one of the few who understood people well enough to explain my project and the science behind it. Anyway.

Science is not a belief. It doesn't constitute a mode of thinking, and I cannot think of a single human who actually thinks scientifically and rationally about everything they do. There is a reason we find this character amusing, different, and completely alien:


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I am an agnostic. I can only know what I actually know.

Science is the art of knowing, and so I see no reason that those who do believe in God should reject it. What kid of God would give us the keys to discovering the workings of creation and then demand we don't use them?
 
Atheist. Science and religion regularly co-exist, though one can be forgiven for thinking otherwise when fundamentalist religious people who are regularly threatened by science are also the loudest in the media.

Forgiven, perhaps. But that does not wash away the dumb. This is one of the most annoying false dichotomies of our age.
 
I am an agnostic. I can only know what I actually know.

Science is the art of knowing, and so I see no reason that those who do believe in God should reject it. What kid of God would give us the keys to discovering the workings of creation and then demand we don't use them?

I don't think God ever said: "don't do science." I think a few politicians were afraid of losing power and used the "God said so" scapegoat. I feel like we had a giant reformation for something along those lines ;)
 
All major religions are for the weak and/or the ignorant and/or the desperate.

All 'God clubs' are a complete and total waste of time.
Very insightful, and I note your limited belief in many people’s abilities.
Clear that you have a problem with those that have a religious belief and those with Religious beliefs still live in caves and write on stone tablets
 
Science is the culmative knowledge we have of reality. Religion is mankind's first attempts to understand reality. They got a lot of things wrong.

Now a days we see a whole range of interpetations of the old myths. A lot of people try to fit what we now know into these old myths and say it's compatable. To do this they have to move away from a literal definition of these myths. The compatability of religion and science is dependent on the flexibility of the interpeter. Those who want the old myths to be true and have meaning are quite flexible indeed.
 
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