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Thread #147391   Message #3458605
Posted By: Musket
29-Dec-12 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Alternative to Science??
Subject: RE: BS: Alternative to Science??
Translation errors, same as borrowing other religions' fantasies, are all well and good and fascinating in their own right, especially in context of how much civilisations have risen and fell under the banner of interpretation of God.

However, no matter what was originally written, the point still remains that ascribing supernatural powers to people and claiming an invisible sentient being is orchestrating the moves of humans, on the basis of us being "in his image" is still fantasy and has no foundation other than heritage of believing it so.

Which doesn't, cannot and will not make it an alternative to seeking to know what makes a clock tick, or science as it is known.

Out of interest, I have no issue with indulging people and using a word to describe what science hasn't got to the bottom of yet, and if we call that word "God" then it has the convenience of a universally accepted word, and for those steeped in reality, it has the novel effect of shrinking and describing less with time. In the same way as proclaimed faith is shrinking at about the same rate.