Religion is not the Problem: But is it the Answer...?

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59. No one has ever claimed that

a black hole or a quasar can't be grasped at all by the mind, so I have no idea why you think this is a relevant analogy.

What exactly are these "theories" that Christians have based on "empirical evidence and shared data"? And why does "faith" need evidence? The SOP of Christians and other believers is to trumpet anything that looks like real world evidence in support of their beliefs, but when the evidence contradicts their beliefs, they simply say "Well, I don't care about evidence, I have faith that this is true"

And yes, science has improved its understanding of the physical world over time...what of it? Read up on the relativity of wrong before you imply that today's science is just as likely to be as far from the truth as science of 100, 500 or 1000 years ago. Bottom line is that, throughout history, scientific explanations have replaced supernatural religious explanations as better and more in line with observed facts, but in no case has a religious explanation replaced a scientific one, to be accepted as better and more likely.

Science would be happy to "agree to disagree" on whatever fantasmagorical beliefs religious folk held in private or amongst themselves, but religious folk aren't. Hence the conflict.