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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 763511" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p><strong>Re: United Way Intimidation</strong></p><p></p><p>"I don't understand how something happened, therefore god must have done it."</p><p>It's the old "god of the gaps" theory, ie, that god lives within the gaps in our knowledge. It's one of the reasons that the church used to spend so much energy trying to suppress science, because they were afraid that the more people knew about how the world worked, the less powerful god would become. The Roman Catholic church in particular has come a long way since those days, to the point that the Vatican now has a science department and has issued statements in support of teaching evolutionary theory and dismissing intelligent design. It's one of the reasons that I don't think that science and religion are as incompatible as some people choose to believe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 763511, member: 4805"] [b]Re: United Way Intimidation[/b] "I don't understand how something happened, therefore god must have done it." It's the old "god of the gaps" theory, ie, that god lives within the gaps in our knowledge. It's one of the reasons that the church used to spend so much energy trying to suppress science, because they were afraid that the more people knew about how the world worked, the less powerful god would become. The Roman Catholic church in particular has come a long way since those days, to the point that the Vatican now has a science department and has issued statements in support of teaching evolutionary theory and dismissing intelligent design. It's one of the reasons that I don't think that science and religion are as incompatible as some people choose to believe. [/QUOTE]
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