Darkanhell, we're going to make our Imperial Creed more how The Emperor truly wanted it. He is not a god, simply the best of Us. May we all aspire to His example.
Concepts made complex by humans seeking to be right in their beliefs, missing the point that we are all different and in so brought to a higher power in different ways.
Feel free to join us though. I'll be starting servivces at an undetermined time. He cares not from whence you came, so long as you join in his cause to better mankind's future.
Tbh you can totally be atheist and that's fine, BUT if your bashing something that many people find comfort in during the struggle of life then you're not nearly as great as you think you are.
But there are tens of thousands of Christian denominations. So each 'religion' is split into denominations. That's a lot of disagreements, new ones every day. On the other hand, all sciences are merging into one. Religion is divisive, knowledge is cohesive.
Goes both ways. There are plenty of examples of religion bringing people together -- even people of different faiths.
There are even examples of "sciences" causing division.
Basically, division is caused by selfishness and political pressure, nothing more. Neither religion nor science is powerful or compelling enough to trump mankind's desire to be top dog.
That's hardly a fair comparison; the vast majority of the wars you're referring to occurred before science was even really a thing. And as I said, those wars were just political. Religion was just a weapon. 9 times out of 10 I'd bet the war still would have happened if there was no religion to speak of
I wasn't taking about religion dividing people, but religions dividing themselves. There are schisms, new interpretations, so what is today a single denomination will tomorrow become two. You can draw it as a tree whose branches keep splitting into more branches as time goes. Sciences, on the other hand, started as many disjoint bits of knowledge but every day we find common underlying principles that actually unify them into one big self-consistent model of reality. If you draw it, it's an upside-down tree: it started with many branches but we're getting closer and closer to a single trunk.
That's valid, but I do think it's a generalization. Religions do converge quite often. In fact I'd even say that it's inevitable that they do come together, since they're mostly pursuing the same goals.
Science comes together because of how it's been defined. The method was created in such a way that everyone (ideally) wluld agree. Religion (as a whole) doesn't do that. Many would even say that the diversity of perspectives on that religious tree is perhaps its greatest strength
One of the lead developers of string theory said that he believes that there is a god. He doesn't believe in a traditional book like the Bible, but he has based his beliefs off of Science. And he says that there is a god. He doesn't believe in a traditional book like the Bible, but he has based his beliefs off of science. And he says that there is a god. In the Bible, it says that you will be able to see God through his creations. So even if Christianity isn't the right religion, there is most likely a god.
He hasn't based his belief on science, but on his gutt feeling. Unless you come up with well defined properties and consequences that are unique to a specific kind of god, and then gather evidence supporting that, you haven't done science, you're just making stuff up. I have felt awe and transcendence (I'm also a physicist by trade), but I don't go deciding magical stuff for the whole universe, I'm too humble for that.
Fact remains, someone who has dedicated his life to studying the inner workings of the universe has decided that there is a god.
The big bang was originally a creationist theory. God said, let there be light, and BANG, there was light. I assume you know that the big bang has been proven. Let's take a look at some things the bible says. Within, it says that the universe is stretching out.
I'm going to comment some various examples.
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [was] as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
Ezekiel 1:22
Isaiah
Author(s): Isaiah
Date: 746-680 B.C.
[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
- Isaiah 40:22
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh all [things]; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isaiah 44:24
That's all I can put here. If you are an open minded physicist, maybe check out Chuck Missler.
No, I'm saying that there is science in the bible that complies with what science has discovered to be true. Religion vs. Science is false. Science and God go hand in hand.
If you cherry pick, or reinterpret the scripture after the fact to match empirical evidence. Science makes prediction, scripture makes postdictions ("look, it was written there all along, we just hadn't noticed until now").
I read those lines as referencing the creation of the world, with God 'stretching the heavens and spreading the earth' in order to create the world upon which we live. Of course, I've not read these lines in context yet and didn't actually get confirmed into the Lutheran church after a bunch of confirmation classes, so I'm not necessarily the best one to analyse biblical quotes.
I've seen a few truncated versions that weren't particularly persuasive, but I've never seen one of the full videos all the way through.
It doesn't matter anyway, as that doesn't change what I said.
I'd rather focus on what we have in common than what we disagree on.
There are even examples of "sciences" causing division.
Basically, division is caused by selfishness and political pressure, nothing more. Neither religion nor science is powerful or compelling enough to trump mankind's desire to be top dog.
Science comes together because of how it's been defined. The method was created in such a way that everyone (ideally) wluld agree. Religion (as a whole) doesn't do that. Many would even say that the diversity of perspectives on that religious tree is perhaps its greatest strength
The big bang was originally a creationist theory. God said, let there be light, and BANG, there was light. I assume you know that the big bang has been proven. Let's take a look at some things the bible says. Within, it says that the universe is stretching out.
I'm going to comment some various examples.
Ezekiel 1:22
Isaiah
Author(s): Isaiah
Date: 746-680 B.C.
[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
- Isaiah 40:22
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh all [things]; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isaiah 44:24
That's all I can put here. If you are an open minded physicist, maybe check out Chuck Missler.
This is wrong.
It doesn't matter anyway, as that doesn't change what I said.