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Topic: Let's Keep Science and Religion Seperate
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No Pastafarianism is no parody but reality.
Elements of our religion are often described as satire and there are many members who do not literally believe our scripture, but this isn’t unusual in religion – it’s only more obvious in the case of our particular religion. A lot of Christians, for example, don’t believe the Bible is literally true – but that doesn’t mean they aren’t True Christians.
If you say Pastafarians must believe in a literal Flying Spaghetti Monster to be True Believers, then you can make a similar argument for Christians. There is a lot of outlandish stuff in the Bible that rational Christians choose to ignore. We do the same with our scripture. This is intentional.
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Hoping we are vibrating on the same frequency here. That of a Creator-creature relationship. No matter what Faith/belief/religion we have.
God creating man in His own image. Not anthropomorphism, man attributing human qualities to his own god/gods.
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Phystutordotcom
If we are going to teach creation science we should bring our students into a circular classroom and ask them to sit in the corner. Once they have mastered this self contradicting lesson they might be able to grasp the meaning of the course title.
What if by "corner" we mean "direction" as in the "four corners of the earth." Then from the center of the circular classroom, we have four compass points--north, south, east & west--on the circular classroom's circumference. Connecting the imaginary lines between two adjacent points then you have an inscribed square with four corners that the students may be ready to master.
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capaputi, if we are going to teach complete belief in evolution, we should bring our students into a circular classroom...oh, wait, you already said that.
It's a childish statement, that I would not make except in response to yours and as an attempt to show you that it has no real value.
Science has its place. When it can prove something by experimentation, that is exciting and informative. When it attempts to extrapolate beyond recorded history, and makes assumptions of consistency that cannot be proven, then it goes beyond pure science and into faith. If you choose to place your faith there, that's fine - it is, indeed your choice. I would just like people to understand what they're doing.
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My bad, Tewald. I should have made it clear that I quoted the paragraph on creationism from Physie's first post on this thread.
I understand Science to be empiricism; Religion, a philosophy. Process answers the question "how?" Faith, the question "why?"
I also understand that a circle is a polygon with no sides at all. Therefore, a circular classroom has no corner at all.
Hence I call attention to the biblical view of "four corners of the earth." Corners here, according to some Hebrew scholars, connote directions--East, West, North & South.
The directions point to the four corners of the circular classroom.
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