Science At Odds With Religion
I just thought of something really weird. Why do so many religious types, mostly Christians, consider science to be at odds with religion?
An apple represents so-called "original sin." That of wanting to explore and discover and learn about the world in which we live.
White people forever associate knowledge with original sin. Their faith systems demand it. In the olden legends, Adam and Eve ate a healthy nutritious fruit. This luscious fruit subsequently got them kicked out of heaven. And then a couple millennia later, Sir Isaac Newton had to go and have an apple fall on top of his head and let it inspire concepts such as gravitational force, the earth's magnetic pull, etc.
I wonder if this is why so many Christians are staunchly anti-science and anti-evolution. In their minds, these two unrelated topics are inextricably linked because of that -- that one little piece of fruit. It is a focal point on which the world revolves.
This had led to two odd halves of the same yin yang. An apple brought the downfall of humankind according to this archaic gossip. This apple was purportedly [to be] fruit from the tree of knowledge. And furthermore another apple led to leaps and bounds in scientific discovery. Therefore all science, and the very concept of academia, is bad.
So these two precepts of sin and science are inextricably linked in their minds. leading to a mass population that harbors this neurosis from a slightly different angle. So-called atheists -- just because they like science, learning, discovering (even if they are not very good at it) they think themselves rebellious, renegade, trailblazing freethinkers indeed.
I just thought of something really weird. Why do so many religious types, mostly Christians, consider science to be at odds with religion?
An apple represents so-called "original sin." That of wanting to explore and discover and learn about the world in which we live.
White people forever associate knowledge with original sin. Their faith systems demand it. In the olden legends, Adam and Eve ate a healthy nutritious fruit. This luscious fruit subsequently got them kicked out of heaven. And then a couple millennia later, Sir Isaac Newton had to go and have an apple fall on top of his head and let it inspire concepts such as gravitational force, the earth's magnetic pull, etc.
I wonder if this is why so many Christians are staunchly anti-science and anti-evolution. In their minds, these two unrelated topics are inextricably linked because of that -- that one little piece of fruit. It is a focal point on which the world revolves.
This had led to two odd halves of the same yin yang. An apple brought the downfall of humankind according to this archaic gossip. This apple was purportedly [to be] fruit from the tree of knowledge. And furthermore another apple led to leaps and bounds in scientific discovery. Therefore all science, and the very concept of academia, is bad.
So these two precepts of sin and science are inextricably linked in their minds. leading to a mass population that harbors this neurosis from a slightly different angle. So-called atheists -- just because they like science, learning, discovering (even if they are not very good at it) they think themselves rebellious, renegade, trailblazing freethinkers indeed.
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