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Originally Posted by sodacat
Nor should it. Science is responsible for stuff that does, or should, work, while religion is there to someone feel better. The problem appears when religion (or possibly more accurately the church) starts thinking it can be science too.
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'Scuse me? The church (at least the majority of the modern day one) has never tried to commandeer science. There have been creationism believing scientists who have tried (and in the book Alien linked you to provide a good case for) to explain that not a whole lot other than creationism makes sense.
In fact tossing it aside in a barrage of insults just makes science the new dogma and is a mentality poisonous to the process of discovering new things.
I mean in a two sentence post you can detect utter vehemence and nonstop condescension to people who believe differently than you. The fact that someone could get so angry they feel like physically injuring someone for merely disagreeing is eerily similar to the damned Dark Ages.