Reply #30: Well this is my point. [View All]

[Plaid Adder]

The reason creationists assume that science and religion are incompatible is that their reading of the Bible is so friggin' literal. But that's another rant.

I do think, though, that there was a point in 20th century history where science became the dominant paradigm through which lay people understood the world, and that it sort of muscled out spiritual alternatives. This is not the fault of science itself, any more than it's Galileo's fault that the Pope freaked out when introduced to the idea that the earth is not the center of the universe. I think it is the fault of people being, for some reason, terribly inclined to fasten onto one paradigm and reject all the others, even ones that could be reconciled easily enough.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder