re: What makes you a science denier?

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I grad with chem and hold a similar view. The Bible is the word of God. Science is the work of God. Funny thing about the scientific field is outside of academia and government, aethists tend to be rare.

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^This

I am a biologist. Evolution has been proven time and time again.

The problem is that people automatically associate evolution with Darwinism. Darwin merely put forth a Theory of evolution. Darwin's theory is not law.

I have been reading a book by Michael Dowd titled "Thank God for Evolution". Great book on how Science and Religion are very much intertwined.

The problem I see, as a biologist and devote Catholic, is the extremes on both ends. Christians that take the Bible as literal and science as fiction, and Scientists that completely deny the Bible because they take it literally and science disproves what it says. Both are fallacies.

As Dowd explains, Homo sapiens is the only species on the face of the Earth that seeks to assign meaning to everything in life. Religion is a means of that. Why are we here? What is our purpose? What happens when we die?

The Bible was written at a time when people believed the Earth was the center of the universe. We now know, for a fact, that this is not true, that the solar system is in fact heliocentric. So how anyone can take Genesis as literal when it is clear as day that it is metaphorical is beyond me.

I believe one can have a belief in a greater being--whatever your religion teaches--and still believe that scientific discoveries are fact. Dowd uses the analogy of God as a clock maker. Everything that occurs in life are the mechanisms that make the clock run, but God puts them in motion.

At the end of the day though, I believe that what one man believes is his own busines.