They turned their backs on God and truth, and made science their god.
"*On March 12, 2008, the John Templeton Foundation made the announcement of the winner of its annual Templeton Prize, which honors achievements engaging the great questions of life and the universe. The $1.6 million prize for 2008 went to Michal Heller, a Polish cosmologist and professor in the faculty of philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland. What makes Heller additionally remarkable is that he is a Catholic priest.
People thought that the advance of science meant that religion was in retreat. The two are not connected.
It probably started when some science guys started saying that you can’t look for truth elsewhere other than science itself.
Brilliant idea. Outstanding. Except there aren’t any others. Someone should have told you.
The conflicts you generally see are from the positions of a person are group being inconsistent with or contradicted by other theories built from investigating the world. These conflicting positions are not only from religious beliefs though. And “religions” is a rather large group/wide brush.
Someone should have told you admitting ignorance can be a viable option. We don’t know the answer. I have ticked “None of the above” in my exams countless times and scored. That has never stopped science in its tracks before. Just plain simple truth if that is the goal in our search for knowledge. Forming correct conclusions. Since the data doesn’t fits, therefore this theory or that theory doesn’t hold. People can accept truth. People can accept we don’t have all the scientific answers… Faking answers and BS are the worst kind of answers along with politically correct answers. My former boss once told me, if you don’t know the answer, tell me it is so, don’t guess, So that we can form appropriate strategy to deal with uncertainty and not with false certainty. I think it is good advice and good ethics. Is the scientific ego so huge that it couldn’t handle “we don’t know”? Is the scientific moral so poor that it couldn’t say out loud confidently “we don’t know the answer” as a truth statement?
Conflicts are universal. Catholics like atheists, like Hindus and Buddhists, and Muslims and Jews tend to argue as much with each other when they are not coming together to argue with someone else. We all want to express our point of view This is especially true when someone on the internet is wrong. All that said, there can be some pretty awesome meetings of minds.