Similar argument could be made for eliminating tax exemptions for religious organizations, or limiting their televangical preying on their flock. Things like carbon dating seem to be pretty sound. TV images don't just magically appear from allah or anything. A lot of private money has expanded science. Sime good, as with say, GE for profit. Some questionable, like big Pharms. c
I wouldn't go near your nuts with an Ark full of creationists. It's your contradictory double standard pseudo-science bullshit that's bust.
Yep, they could be wrong about that. Pretty unlikely though. But perhaps Elvis, Bigfoot and The Loch Ness Monster blew up the WTC, then escaped in a flying saucer piloted by ghosts. To be fair, the second supposition is even more far-fetched than the first. By orders of magnitude, even. But both are pretty unlikely. To say that since "science" is wrong about this one thing, therefore they can be wrong about anything, therefore this is true is to clutch at straws. If your "faith" requires you to build huge logical structures on weak foundations, perhaps you should indulge in a bit of self-examination.
Religious people of any stripe do not need to 'self-exam' anything: bedouin desert dwellers who ate their own dung imagined it, later generations wrote it down, and people today believe it. 'Nuff said. Who needs evidence; we don't need no stinking evidence !!
Tadpole shrimp? http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole_shrimp and http://www.caver.net/shrimp.html Ducks and chicks like to eat them. So I used to caught tons of them when I was about 8 years old to feed my hens hoping to get more eggs out. I still think I was doing something more realistic than most of traders here
How about this....God told Job,(at around 600 b.c.) the world was round and free floating in space. Scientists told everyone for the next 2000 years that the earth was flat. God also told Job that the world was made up of things too small to be seen with the eyes (obviously a reference to molecules which would not be "discovered" by scientists until what..1800? 1900?) There are a few other things in there that scientists are waiting to "discover" which of course they will completely ignore the fact that God already told us that 2500+ years ago. Talk about being the last to find out...
No big deal. Other Gods were doing that a thousand years or two before Job's God got on the scene. For instance, Sumar era has a God for just about everything to do with society, mankind, culture, the earth, creation and the universe. It's quite obvious Job's God copied some, altered some then passed off those "discoveries" as his own. Not so sure God should have mentioned those fire breathing dragons to Job. It sort of undermines Her credibility somewhat.
And last but not least. The Virgin Birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and Islam which holds that Mary miraculously conceived Jesus while remaining a virgin. The precursor to artificial insemination.
Some? Did we ever discover a sizable extinct or existing Homo Sapiens culture that provably had no "religious theme"?