Science vs. Religion - Page 8

TallTexan · 02-25-2008, 02:31 PM

[quote=adavis99]LMAO...

I do think it is less appealing to be Agnostic/Atheist.

If Science is your answer: We come from monkeys. When we die, we are worm food.

A lot less happy than the Bible... Doesn't make the Bible right, but definitely easi

er to swallow.[/QUOTE

Something about that ''worm food'' thing that makes you go boo in the night. Not to change the subject but I saw a story a few months ago about digging up ''The Big Bopper'' and he looked like he was just buried. 50 years in the ground and still there. I like that story better than your worm thing.

LittleRam · 03-03-2008, 09:43 PM

[quote=gr8titan]Welcome Brother. I have news for you.. I was born a Catholic and I am NOT anymore. I'm no longer a member of any "organized religion" because I've realized that I do not need a "middle man" in my relationship with my God. I now associate mostly with fellow Christians that live by the "golden rule".

I could not agree more. I don't need a middle-man in my relationship with my god either. Church anymore seems to be to much like a business.
money, money, money....

For some interesting reading..........http://the-end.com/Order_Free_Book.asp

Not that I believe this, but it's interesting to look at all points of view.

Kooshtaka · 03-04-2008, 02:11 AM

The original post was some pretty interesting reading. It was pretty funny when the student stood up and turned it back around on him. haha. I loved doing that to my proffessors when i was in school.

Personally i stay out of the arguements between science and religion just because my views anger both sides and they tend to gang up on me

... haha

**chunko** · 03-04-2008, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Kooshtaka

The original post was some pretty interesting reading. It was pretty funny when the student stood up and turned it back around on him. haha. I loved doing that to my proffessors when i was in school.

Personally i stay out of the arguements between science and religion just because my views anger both sides and they tend to gang up on me

... haha

Okay, lets hear it.

Kooshtaka · 03-04-2008, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by adavis99

Okay, lets hear it.

lol... do i have to?... haha... well personally i follow my Alaska Native cultural beliefs and that doesn't jive with science or the organized religions so i've kinda givin up defending myself against them and just let them go at each other...

**chunko** · 03-04-2008, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Kooshtaka

lol... do i have to?... haha... well personally i follow my Alaska Native cultural beliefs and that doesn't jive with science or the organized religions so i've kinda givin up defending myself against them and just let them go at each other...

care to explain?

Kooshtaka · 03-04-2008, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by adavis99

care to explain?

sure why not...

I'm a Tlingit, for those who don't know that is one of the 5 major groups of Alaska Natives. I actually think we are the 5th largest group in the US!! YAY FOR US!... lol... sorry back to topic.
Our traditional beliefs say that we were placed and we have been in Southeast Alaska since time immamorial- we didn't come over any landbridge, which gets the scientists panties in a bunch. And the organized religions have always had problems with systems of bliefs that are different than their own. Traditional Tlingit beliefs embrace all living things and believe that they all have souls and can be communicated to, except rocks and dirt, but animals yes. Most organized religions don't believe that animals have souls. Also Tlingits traditionally followed Shaminism. If you are sick then you go to see the Shaman and he will cure you. There is more but, basically it's a set of beliefs centered around showing proper respect. In the past Tlingits were known to go to war over percived slights, so tlingits as a rule are often the most attentive to modes of respect. One group of Tlingits kicked the Russians @ss not once but twice using no more than their traditional weapons.

and that group was no more than one segment of one clan, there are dozens of clans in Southeast...

**chunko** · 03-04-2008, 05:34 PM

Just out of curiosity, what's your reaction to Scientific evidence and/or theory that contradicts your beliefs e.g. ice age land bridge migration?

Kooshtaka · 03-04-2008, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by adavis99

Just out of curiosity, what's your reaction to Scientific evidence and/or theory that contradicts your beliefs e.g. ice age land bridge migration?

Other groups came across the land bridge but we did not. When the ice grew the ocean levels fell and the Tlingits followed the water levels down and when the ice receeded and the sea levels rose then the Tlingits moved into the area left by the ice. Tlingits have been in the area for over 10,000 years.

Big Don · 03-06-2008, 08:34 PM

Too long, someone give me the punchline

**chunko** · 03-07-2008, 09:27 AM

The student supposedly outwits his teacher to make a point that religion > science.

I say supposedly because I found huge holes in the "kids" points...which kinda ruined the joke/story for me.

But then I'm all about arguing and debating so maybe it's funny/revelational to others.