Do You Live In Biblical Fantasy World Or Modern Reality?
First Commandment (No other Gods) vs First Amendment (Freedom of Religion)
Garden of Eden vs Science and Reality
Noah’s Flood vs Dinosaur Extinction 65 million years ago
Tower of Babel vs International Space Station
The Raising of Lazarus vs CPR and Defibrillators
Faith Healed Lepers vs Antibiotics virtually eliminating Leprosy
I could go on, but I think everyone gets the point.
Which world do you choose to live in, a Middle Eastern Fantasy World or here in Modern Reality. And try to remember that you are using a COMPUTER to answer the question, not sending an angel with a telepathic message.
And yes, they actually are mutually exclusive.
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November 26, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
Right now I’m between water and beer o’clock.
November 27, 2009 @ 2:53 am
Personally, I’m really enjoying living in my modern fantasy world (complete with all the latest scientific facts however).
November 27, 2009 @ 9:29 am
Word. Modern world for me.
November 27, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Hmmm, by saying definitively for you that they are mutually exclusive, it doesn’t seem like you really want an in depth review of the complicated relationship between Science and Religion. It seems like you either just want people to validate your beliefs or to incite those who don’t believe like you to spout answers that you can dismiss- again validating your belief system.
But I’d like to broaden your view of Science and Religion. Not because I want you to believe in something religious, but because as a Science-minded person, you should have the curiousity to further explore the relationship between Science and Religion rather than simply thinking that they are mutually exclusive. I don’t think there are many topics in the world that are truly “mutually exclusive.”
I assume that what you mean by “mutually exclusive” is that either everything can be explained with science or everything can be explained by religion- not both. But you are assuming that Science and Religion always deal with the same questions. Sorry to use a somewhat low-brow source, but wiki expains it well: “Science attempts to answer the ‘how’ and ‘what’ questions of observable and verifiable phenomena; religion attempts to answer the ‘why’ questions of value, morals and spirituality. However, some science also attempts to explain such ‘why’ questions, and some religious authority also extends to ‘how’ and ‘what’ questions regarding the natural world, creating the potential for conflict.” I’d also like to add that “why” questions of Science often begin at what I see as a theoretical and unobservable point- although it is expected to in some ways prove those theories through a representational test. (Let us also think about whether representations can fully explain a natural phenomenon: They intentionally control the environment around an experiment and cannot always account for the multitude of possible affecting factors in the natural world.)
But, let’s go back to the idea of Science focusing on observable phenomenon and Religion focusing on morals and such, does Science even want to answer questions such as: How should I treat others? What does society(at least part of it) expect of me in terms of behavior? And Science doesn’t answer the question: If it’s possible for us to do, should we do it? A question raised by atom bombs, cloning, geneticly modified food and animals (look into the scientific faux pas with Starlink corn), or even the possible future of being able to modify human beings (if you could chose not to be black or gay or female, would you?)
One benefit of religions is that they do jump start the process and ask questions about our world- opening the way for Science to prove or disprove them. Sometimes Religion can come to an answer well before Science ever did. People were using the idea of Chi and meditation to heal themselves long before mind-over-matter was proved by Science and used in such medical techniques as Biofeedback and Clinical and Self- Hypnosis.
I’m not a fan of the fact that Religion tends to give an answer for questions and just expects belief. I like that Science is constantly re-examining and disproving it’s own conclusions. But maybe you could take up that Scientific spirit of exploration and curiosity and explore the relationship between Religion and Science. Saying that Science and Religion are mutually exclusive assumes that they are simply opposing views of the same question. But Religion deals with many Philosophical and Sociological questions that Science doesn’t address or wish to address. And you are ignoring the fact that a lot of Religious texts like Lazarus and the Flood aren’t just explaining a natural phenomenon- they also have a mythological and allegorical meaning- they are meant to have moral and spiritual lessons in them. And maybe people believed that natural disasters occurred because of how they behaved- maybe the natural disaster simply served as a good background for someone to address moral and social questions. The fact is, Science simply cannot answer all questions put to it. Just try and apply it when advising someone on Yahoo Answers about how to deal with a cheating husband. Not that I’m fond of Religion, I abhor dogma, but I think that it is interesting and worth my study, just the same as Science.
So, to answer your question- I live in a world where I like to observe, question, believe, experience, feel, think about as many aspects of the world as I can.
November 27, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
You seem to think that only the visible world is reality, there is more to it than that.
November 27, 2009 @ 9:18 pm
I live in my own well-constructed fantasy – What else do you expect from an anthropomorphic beer?
November 28, 2009 @ 1:36 am
I was fortunate to get a proper education in science, math and logic so of course I live in modern reality.
November 28, 2009 @ 6:02 am
Wow, my fantasy world is so much better. It’s fully technologically and scientiffically integrated, while still allowing me to avoid reality. Seriously, no cable TV.
November 28, 2009 @ 7:20 am
in today’s world, and i love it, with all its Sodom and Gomorrah,lol, but i still believe, and i guess god has progressed too, after all he created us and our mind to go forth and progress
November 28, 2009 @ 11:12 am
I live in the year 2007 use a computer AND am a born again believing Christian!
November 28, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
Modern and factual reality!
I would like to add that this is a very good question indeed!
Have a nice day Sir!
November 28, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
neither. i like it that way.
November 28, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
Dont understand question but i think modern reality sounds best
November 29, 2009 @ 1:19 am
Modern Reality.
First Amendment.
Science and Reality.
Mass extinctions.
ISS.
CPR.
Antibiotic, and their resistant bacteria.
The bluntness of the question is fitting, but people will delve into the minutiae as well. For instance, why do you say that they are mutually exclusive?
November 29, 2009 @ 6:04 am
i live by the commandments and i don’t believe the bible is a fantasy and i’m not trying to be any ones angel but you asked the question and i have the right to answer it with my beliefs is that real enough for you?
November 29, 2009 @ 7:08 am
You sure have a lot of time on your hands. Pretty pathetic life, huh?
November 29, 2009 @ 9:18 am
I live in modern times, but i still hold the Bible to be true. I believe it from cover to cover. And nothing that people say will change that. Believe it or not the Bible still applies to todays world. And for that matter about the computer, there are things in the Bible that we are just now finding in modern society.
For example God mentions springs in the sea. And we found that in modern society like in the 1950′s. I don’t doubt the Bible one bit.
November 29, 2009 @ 9:24 am
I live in a modern unbiblical real fantasy world.
November 29, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
damnit, that’s no fun!
I want more choices!
Ow! ow! OW! ok stop twisting my arm and I’ll answer, sheesh!
I’ll take the latter choice, then.
November 29, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
Sorry, I don’t get the point.
What does the fact of dinosaur extinction have to do with a flood millions of years later??
What does the miraculous raising of people from the dead by Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago have to do with modern methods of preventing some deaths??
What does the healing of lepers with a touch or a word 2,000 years ago have to do with modern antibiotics??
What does a foolish primitive attempt to reach heaven by physical means have to do with modern space exploration??
No-one truly lives in reality, modern or otherwise, unless his personal reality includes the ultimate reality Who is the source of all other reality.
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November 29, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
This world is not true reality, it is just a place for now we are passing through. Soon it will be turned back to God’s perfect order and we wil live here Heaven on Earth as was God’s plan from the beginning with Eden. You really don’t want to miss it.<><
November 30, 2009 @ 1:50 am
I live in my perception of modern reality.
Sorry had to make that little Hindu modification; I’ve been told I sound like an atheist.
I took it as a complement =) but really, we only experience our nervous system.
November 30, 2009 @ 7:54 am
repost:Over 2000 years ago in the Book of Job it says that God sits on the circle of the earth. When did WE discover that the earth was round??…oh yeah 1492
The Bible also says that “He hangs the earth on nothing”. This was written in 1600 BC when it was thought that the earth sat on a great animal.
There are a great number of scientific facts written in the Bible thousands of years before OUR great western minds discovered them. Read “100 scientific proofs that the bible is super natural in origin” by Ray Comfort…then read the Bible
I’ll choose God’s fantasy over human foolishness anyday
Just another sinner
November 30, 2009 @ 8:51 am
okay, the first ammendment is actually that CONGRESS can’t impose a religion
and how can you prove the Garden of Eden didn’t exist?
They have found fish fossils in the mountains proving that the sea was once that high (the flood covering the whole world)
and the test they use to determine that things are millions of years old have been proven to be innacurate, they’ve tested them on things they could prove were only 50 yrs old and those test came back saying that they were thousands of years old.
And CPR and Defibrillators can’t compare to raising someone from the dead, they work on someone whose heart has only stopped for a short time and Lazarus and been dead for several days.
and back then they didn’t have antibiotics so it was a miracle and it still would be a miracle today if someone contracted leprosy and were healed without any treatment.
I could go on but I think you get the point.
November 30, 2009 @ 9:13 am
I’ll take reality for a sane mind please, Father
November 30, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
Modern Reality that the Bible is true..