re: Do you go to church every Sunday?

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Science and faith are not mutually exclusive, and it's silly to think otherwise. Please tell us, now that you're educated, how science precludes faith.

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No one answered me in the other thread, which apparently got anchored, so I'll repost my answer in this one:


You can cry "Genesis is metaphorical" all you want, but the fact is that it wasn't written metaphorically. People try to use that excuse since science has disproven so much of the major stuff in Genesis (please don't play stupid and make me explain this further). First of all, it wouldn't have so many inaccuracies if it were truly the "word of God" and not simply shite made up and written by men. You can not separate the origins/Adam & Eve story from the rest of the Old Testament (or New). Genesis gives an extensive genealogy of all the major Old Testament "characters," and the New Testament completes the family of Jesus tracing back to those same characters. This outright demonstrates that the Old Testament, and specifically Genesis, were intended as literal truth. If not, the entire Old Testament falls apart - straight on through to the New.
If Genesis/Adam and Eve were meant to be metaphorical, how do you explain this? It's simply a convenient excuse for apologists to use in light of everything science has proven false.
And I won't even mention how every major aspect of Jesus' life and credentials were stolen from other "gods" before him...that's another argument.
Science and religion are, in fact, mutually exclusive.