What would happen if we applied Christian logic to other areas of life?
Imagine if when NASA made the first shuttle, they based the designs on text that was thousands of years old from people who did not use the scientific method.
Imagine if they did NO scientific research and they prayed to God to help them build it and to put the information in their heads. Imagine if they did no experiments to see if any equipment would work and based everything on the "answers" they recieved from prayer.
Would you want to get on this shuttle?
2007-09-13 09:39:34 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Imagine if we listened to every burning bush that spoke to us.
2007-09-13 09:46:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
As Wittgenstein pointed out, the same "savage" who stabs an effigy of his enemy, ostensibly to hurt him from a distance, builds his hut out of wood, not magic. And it is noteworthy as well that the "savages" who dance claiming it is "to make the rains come" do so only when it is time for the rainy season to begin.
The boxer who prays before a match: does he think he has an incantation by which he can manipulate God to assure his victory? And does he stop praying if sometimes he loses? (If so, his prayer is a superstition and a crass one at that!)
Whether what is said philosophically acknowledges this fact, religious belief and ritual function in different spheres and serve different purposes than practical endeavors and scientific inquiries.
Gould calls this "Non-overlapping Magisteria".
While I hesitate to call what you suggest "Christian logic" (not all Christians are superstitious fools), Creation "Scientists" are paragons of this tendency to muddle the roles of science and religion. And your question is quite to the point in addressing the likes of them!
2007-09-13 17:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by Gnu Diddy! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I suppose then the shuttle would be 150 cubits long, roughly rectangular in shape and made of wood. And since it would have no means of motive power, I guess we'd all be sitting around Cape Canaveral praying for the Almighty to use his god power to lift it up into space...
2007-09-13 17:09:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
F no! Religion eventually capitulates to science. Heliocentrism, evolution, birth control, relativity, gravity, the cell theory, etc. were all rejected by churches. Most religions now believe in these concepts or are slowly inching towards them. Hell, the Catholic Church is thinking of allowing condoms when a (heterosexual) couple has AIDS. It even allows for procedures that are remarkably similar to abortion. Religion falters to science, NEVER VICE VERSA.
2007-09-13 16:48:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am a shipbuilder by trade, and I always think it would be fun to commandeer a dry dock and try to build a reproduction of the ark. I would love to watch every religious fundamentalists face when we flood the dock and the ark stays right on the bottom. "So much for biblical engineering, huh?" I would also like to try to fit 2 of everything on it, I could only imagine what that fiasco would look like. PETA would be screaming for my testicles...
2007-09-13 16:45:45 · answer #5 · answered by That Guy 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
And if with the scientific method, I discovered a way for all people to have common sense, would you participate, please?
I gather this is going to be some trick question where you would later state that's exactly what happened. It didn't, and I wouldn't.
2007-09-13 16:52:11 · answer #6 · answered by Allison P 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That would be pretty funny-looking, I think. I'd prefer to stay at least a few miles away; using the Bible as a rocketry manual could be dangerous!
-Atheist
2007-09-13 21:20:53 · answer #7 · answered by eV 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine if epilepsy, mental illness and Turrets were still considered demonic possessions?
2007-09-13 16:45:46 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't bother me. It would probably resemble a kettle, and I'd just step out when the heat got a bit uncomfortable.
2007-09-13 16:43:53 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't want to ride on the fundie shuttle.
2007-09-13 16:47:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋