Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science and Religion Are Not ‘Reconcilable,’ So Stop Trying

[saint25225]

On a side note....IDGAF, Pluto is still a planet to me and him and his white CAC wife can suck it!

 

[acri1]

Sure, that's why I got educated on the subject and use both historical textual criticism and form criticism.​

It hasn't been 'debatable' since Augustine's exegesis in the 4th Century CE up until the Scopes Monkey Trial in the 20's which birthed 'Creationism'.

Unless you're speaking to a fundamentalist/Creationist your critique is a waste of thought.​

The vast, vast majority of Christians worldwide don't consider Genesis to be a didactic poem.

Unless you want to say that they're all fundamentalists...what exactly makes your opinion the definitive interpretation?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

The vast, vast majority of Christians worldwide don't consider Genesis to be a didactic poem.

The vast, vast majority of Christians don't view it as history (as we know it) and understand the 'teaching' imparted through the text.​

what exactly makes your opinion the definitive interpretation?

Form criticism, reading the text in the proper context, and reading the works of Rudolph Bultmann, Karl Barth, Dale B. Martin and Bart D. Ehrman to name a few.
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[BiggWebb79]

He gave him the look at :22 lol

 

[Serious]

I'll take my chances believing in the most high while at the same time not ignoring the benefits of science. Being a balanced individual is great.

 

[Type Username Here]

I agree to an extent. Ultimately, both have path that fall back on determining philosophical questions about the universe but only one of these philosophical disciplines tell you that all the answers have already been provided. This seems like a cop-out.

Also, it's unfair to lump all the religions together. His critiques for sure apply to the Abrahamic Religions and several others but not so much for some of the eastern ones. The eastern religions are much more rooted in philosophical, scientific and logical sources. Of course, at times science negates these Eastern religious teachings, but the followers are much more willing to accept it.

 

[Brown_Pride]

“Educated religious people are perfectly fine with that,” he said. “It’s the fundamentalists who want to say that the Bible is the literal truth of God and want to see the Bible as a science textbook who are knocking on the science doors of schools… Enlightened religious people are not acting that way.”

Tyson said that a “free country” means that people can believe whatever they want: “Think that there’s one God, two Gods, ten Gods, or no Gods.” But once those people start to enter the science classroom, that’s when he has a problem. “I’m not telling you what to think,” he said. “I’m just telling you in the science class, ‘You’re not doing science. This is not science. Keep it out.’”

i agree. Religion is not science, there are fairly accurate ways to read the bible and believe in sciencem sadly too many religious folks abide by a too strict and literal a reading of the bible and that's sad.