[QUOTE=Vincent Valentine]I really don't see why science has to contradict religion. I'm no biblical scholar (or scholar of anything for that matter), but I believe the bible says that God created the world and all life and everything on it. So why does this condradict the scientific history of earth and life? Couldn't God have created the earth or universe exactly as stated in the big bang theory? Starting with a giant mass, exploding it, and then molding that matter into planets, stars, galaxies, solar systems, etc? Couldn't he have created life by starting with the most basic single-celled life form, and then making subtle changes to diversify future generations and continuing this until you have modern man and all the other animals and plants? Hell, even the existance of dinosaurs fits into this. Maybe God starting developing them, decided he didn't like how emo they were, and then blew them all up.[/QUOTE]
Well, if the dinosaurs suddenly exploded, evolution was based on an invisible, undetectable intelligent force, and the Big Bang theory was staged by Hands of God, you got problems with what science stands for. There isn't any real observations and evidence for scientific growth. It seems faith and science are different subjects. And, I don't think religion would like to warp in different directions to explain such events.
*shrug*
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