Would you like to know the benefits of being a Christian?

[The_Meach]

Admin: why are these joke accts (Lucifer/JC) still around?

[sethsez]

If we were to say that science has not discovered everything but that it may do so...and that we supposed that it eventually would...

Could we then say that we were taking it as a matter of faith that science would eventually discover everything?

<wry, WFB smile>

</Firing Line>

You're assuming that we think science will eventually explain everything.

I believe that science can explain everything. Theoretically. But I don't think it ever will.

And "science" is not a singular concept like Christianity is, so comparing the two is rather pointless.

[The_Meach]

I don't have faith in science, but I do trust it.

Do you trust it to (eventually, with forevertime) explain everything?

[Josh]

Admin: why are these joke accts (The_Meach) still around?

[Fe 26]

No, but I did get sent to one of those Youth Fellowship seminars / sermons / concerts once. I tell ya, nothing cements either one's love or hatred for Christian music quite like one of those things.

I don't know what day it was, but apparently, recently, it got to be ok to write shitty music for god. Apparently he quit giving a shit about quality in the past 100 years.

[The_Meach]

You're assuming that we think science will eventually explain everything.

I believe that science can explain everything. Theoretically. But I don't think it ever will.

Then if science won't ever explain everything, could you find space for the unknowable to be...true/valid?

[g0zen]

Do you trust it to (eventually, with forevertime) explain everything?

I trust that it can possibly formulate an explanation based on evidence and replicable results for everything that we as humans can perceive. Does that mean it would 'know everything'? Not necessarily.

I don't know what day it was, but apparently, recently, it got to be ok to write shitty music for god. Apparently he quit giving a shit about quality in the past 100 years.

I don't mean to sound like a vendictive atheist, but that shit was really hypnotic and the people there were getting into it in a scary way. Plus, I really hate soft synthesizer music.

[Lucifer]

I don't know what day it was, but apparently, recently, it got to be ok to write shitty music for god. Apparently he quit giving a shit about quality in the past 100 years.

He's got the worst taste in music... big time lol.

In Hell we listen to Slayer and fuck dangerously young girls. EXCEPT FOR WHEN WE'RE FUCKING THEIR MOTHERS AND LISTENING TO SLAYER!

[g0zen]

In Hell we listen to Slayer and fuck dangerously young girls. EXCEPT FOR WHEN WE'RE FUCKING THEIR MOTHERS AND LISTENING TO SLAYER!

Sign me up, o' horned one. \m/

[sethsez]

Then if science won't ever explain everything, could you find space for the unknowable to be...true/valid?

Depends on what you mean by unknowable.

I think everything can be quantified, in one way or another. However, that doesn't mean we're capable of understanding everything in any meaningful way.