Chap wrote:LDS (or pretty well any other religion) apologist reaction to piece of evidence that might, if true, overturn a fundamental claim of their religion:
Oh Lord no! This can't be true! God is testing our faith? But since we KNOW (with every fiber of our being) that The Faith is true, we can be sure this will turn out not to be true in the end. Maybe if we suggest it was really a tapir?
Physicist reaction to piece of evidence that might, if true, overturn a fundamental claim of currently accepted physical theory:
Wow! That is astonishing! If that was true the universe would be even stranger than we thought it was, and the field would be open for some fascinating remaking of all our theories (maybe I might be the one to succeed, and be even more famous than Newton and Einstein?). But before we get too excited, let's check this out thoroughly. So far any effect that seems to flatly contradict that theory has always been shown to be illusory, and this effect may go the way of all the others ... but all the same, you never know ...
Spot the difference?
Night and day difference.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
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when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
So how does this prove Kolobian astronomy is true?
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
I've got to credit you with a good catch. Thank you!
Tarski,
LOL! with one pic, you demolished half of MDD -- no pun intended.
Well, the junior tier taking on this one I have to say are among the least educated and the dullest of wit to ever enter the trade. The senior Mopologists must be weeping over what the Lord has left them with as disciples.
Chap wrote:LDS (or pretty well any other religion) apologist reaction to piece of evidence that might, if true, overturn a fundamental claim of their religion:
Oh Lord no! This can't be true! God is testing our faith? But since we KNOW (with every fiber of our being) that The Faith is true, we can be sure this will turn out not to be true in the end. Maybe if we suggest it was really a tapir?
Chap, this is a simplistic dismissal of religion as a whole that really doesn't reflect the attitudes of all the faiths it dismisses.
When the Big Bang Theory came out the Roman Catholic Church made the rather bold (in my opinion) decision to embrace that theory, while, as I understand it, Evangelicals are nearly universal in denouncing it. So I guess I don't see how you can conclude that "pretty well any other religion" has such a suspicion of (rumored or otherwise) scientific discoveries.
The Big Bang was invented by a monk, Kev. But let me ask you this. if the Catholic Church embraced the theory, did it do so because it found the evidence convincing, or because the theory bore superficial resemblance to its theology?
Chap is exactly right.
Most religions have backed way off today. They've realized they've got nothing but owned by science, and make fewer and fewer staunch claims that will clearly conflict.
