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Originally Posted by willravel
That's true. What I mean to suggest is that faith and science often work in opposition, much as fiction and fact work in opposition. I'm not in any place to say God doesn't exist exactly, but I think it needs to be said that we have no proof of God's existence and therefore basing science on his existence doesn't make sense.
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I don't disagree, but to my tiny little mind, the opposition is perceived and not actual. Science attempts to chart the workings of the universe using a well defined methodology. Faith cannot work in such rigid parameters, because by definition, faith is not necessary in the presense of proof. Faith attempts to address what science cannot. What happens to our self when we die? Is there a unity to the universe? Something from which all things spring?
The religious fundys maintain that science and faith are opposed, and they clearly understand neither science nor faith. I think you maintain that science and faith are opposed because you want to apply the same guidelines to both, and you can't. Faith is not the result of, nor subject to, the scientific method.