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Personally, I find the idea of simultaneous support for both religion and science wholly incompatible. Here's my thought process:
- Scientists support the [url=http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/overview_scientific_method2.gif]scientific method[/url].
- Faith-based religion conflicts with the scientific method, as religion skips/ignores steps in the scientific method.
- One cannot support the scientific method while simultaneously supporting faith-based religion.
One cannot truly support both science and religion; you're compromising your support in one or the other.
Thoughts? Explain your position.
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It is not an incompatibility between science and religion ... it is an incompatibility between the people of practice in which the issue exists. No different than between various religions (so many wars), nor between different branches of science. To say you cannot truly support both only highlights the limits of that individual. Even a true scientist would welcome a chance to prove his own theory, and consider alternate findings.