We're off to a great start.

I don't see why science and religion can't co-exist. One is reality and one is fiction. So long as we understand that they get along just fine.

Any claim of the supernatural clashes with science..on a very fundamental basis.

An odd attempt at legitimizing religion while making science sound mystical at the same time. You could see unanswered questions as "full of mystery" if you were hoping to write a dramatic paperback about science. Otherwise it is just full of mystery because you haven't done enough reading on it. 

That's because you believe in an all powerful super-wizard. Starting with that foundation you could believe just about anything.

God? You mean if He were real? Sure, why not.

Then you do not believe in evolution.

Then you do not believe in creationism.

Between science and imaginary super-wizards. Errm...I guess anything is possible?

Correct.

Which would be when?

 So science is arbitrary based on the will of an imaginary super-being. That's good to know. 

You are confusing proof belief in the existance of god with proof of god. They are two completely different things, obviously.

This is true. It is this precise faith that I have which enables me to see Invisible Pink Unicorns and light shows created by superwizards. We agree completely.

The whole thing is just damn dumb. I thought that she was done ranting about how wrong I am, but when I got home from work today I looked and lo! She had written a blog about HER view of science and religion, which is a direct quote from Brigham Young (mormon prophet.. or rather profit.) Which said:

"It was observed here just now that we differ from the Christian world in our religious faith and belief; and so we do very materially. I am not astonished that infidelity prevails to a great extent among the inhabitants of the earth, for the religious teachers of the people advance many ideas and notions for truth which are in opposition to and contradict facts demonstrated by science, and which are generally understood. Says the scientific man, "I do not see your religion to be true; I do not understand the law, light, rules, religion, or whatever you call it, which you say God has revealed; it is confusion to me, and if I submit to and embrace your views and theories I must reject the facts which science demonstrates to me." This is the position, and the line of demarcation has been plainly drawn, by those who profess Christianity, between the sciences and revealed religion. You take, for instance, our geologists, and they tell us that this earth has been in existence for thousands and millions of years. They think, and they have good reason for their faith, that their researches and investigations enable them to demonstrate that this earth has been in existence as long as they assert it has; and they say, "If the Lord, as religionists declare, made the earth out of nothing in six days, six thousand years ago, our studies are all vain; but by what we can learn from nature and the immutable laws of the Creator as revealed therein, we know that your theories are incorrect and consequently we must reject your religions as false and vain; we must be what you call infidels, with the demonstrated truths of science in our possession; or, rejecting those truths, become enthusiasts in, what you call, Christianity."

 In these respects we differ, from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular. You may take geology, for instance, and it is a true science; not that I would say for a moment that all the conclusions and deductions of its professors are true, but its leading principles are; they are facts-they are eternal; and to assert that the Lord made this earth out of nothing is preposterous and impossible. God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist. There is an eternity before us, and it is full of matter; and if we but understand enough of the Lord and his ways, we would say that he took of this matter and organized this earth from it. How long it has been organized it is not for me to say, and I do not care anything about it. As for the Bible account of the creation we may say that the Lord gave it to Moses, or rather Moses obtained the history and traditions of the fathers, and from these picked out what he considered necessary, and that account has been handed down from age to age, and we have got it, no matter whether it is correct or not, and whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant. This we know by what we have learned naturally since we have had a being on the earth."

And that's that... that is, in a nut shell, the whole entire philosaphy behind her damn life. That's what she thinks, and because a prophet said it, it makes her just THAT much more right. What pisses me the hell off (what I'm stewing on right now) is how these damn christians seem to think they are so much better (more intelligent etc) than those of us who AREN'T christian. I can't stand that. Nor can I stand the "someone who's REALLY special said something REALLY cool before I thought of it, so that's naturally my philosaphy on life.." outlook. grr!!

I never really paid attention to think kind of stuff before. (I'm really good at ignoring stuff.)

--Sarah--

I agree completely.. it's just incredible to watch people flush their thinking minds down the toilet.

Their loss; not yours.