"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in
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On the radio recently someone compared the arguments
between science and religion as being like a fight
between a shark and a tiger.

There is no necessary fight between the two.

There needn't be.

Both supreme in their own
environment but each quite out of place in the other.

They share the same environment.

They do? So in your view religion is about answering questions about the
physical world, and science is about morality etc?

I liked the analogy, religion can talk about morality and the human
spirit

You've missed the point of spirituality, and conflated it with religion. 2
strikes!

And the "point" of spirituality is what, in your view? And no, I didn't
conflate it with religion, I said religion could talk about it. In my
experience Christians are given to talking about "spirituality" and, indeed,
confusing it with religious belief.

but just looks ridiculous when it tries
to present the Bible as a credible account of the
creation or as reliable history.

One of the worst mistakes to make is to try to see the Bible as a
historical or scientific document.

On that, at least, we are in agreement. Unfortunately a large proportion of
your fellow countrymen and women believe otherwise.

OTOH science is amoral,
it cannot say what is "right" or "wrong".

Science can give valuable insights into what is the best thing to do, all
known things considered. That could be thought of as a kind of ethical
guide.

Nope, science does not give "insights", it gives information. What you do
with that information could be the result of a moral choice.

Personally I have no need of a belief in a supernatural
god to inform my notions of right and wrong,

Hmm, so you hold yourself up as being a good example of a person with good
mastery of right and wrong?

Who doesn't?

though I understand that other people do.

The obvious implication that you think of yourself as being superior to
many people comes through pretty clearly.

Pot, kettle, black!

What I don't understand
are those who will reject well-tested science in areas
such as cosmology or evolution in favour of a patently
absurd account of creation from the past just because the
later comes from a "Holy Book".

The people who think that they can find science-grade information about
cosmology or evolution in the Bible are obviously traditionalists who have
not kept up.

But there are plenty of them about :-(

David.