Science constantly changes and disproves it's own discoveries and ideas all the time. The Bible does not. Remember that although the Bible was written by men, so was science.
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Both the Bible and science were written by MEN. Science changes because MEN realize that they were WRONG and they try to IMPROVE on it. The Bible is untouched because when MEN realize they were WRONG, they IGNORE it.
Change, or an increasingly archaic "truth"?
That is the whole point of science. It is not stagnating. If a theory fails in the light of new knowledge, then new theories move into place. It is alive and vital and open to change.
Religion is stagnant and mind-killingly monolithic - and wrong. A bat is a bird - so says the inerrant Bible. But even though we all know a bat is a mammal, the Bible doesn't. How much healthier, intellectually, to admit a mistake an move on, rather than cling to the error and pretend it doesn't exist. How much more honest.
Yep, The Edda Scrolls, the Koran the Bible and Grimms fairy tales, all untouched since original writing. See a pattern here?
This piece of paper says "2 = 4"
This piece of paper said "2 = 4"
Remember that I wrote both pieces of paper, but since one of them changed, it automatically stopped being right.
Remember that although the Bible was written by men, so was science.
Is this the latest fundie fallacy...?
Last time I checked there were dozens different christian churches, all claiming their ideas were the right ones.
Beside, not changing your ideas on bullshit does not make it any less of bullshit.
The Bible never changes, only people's interpretations of it.
Take Evolution for example. When the evidence for evolution became too great for the sane Christians to deny, someone said "Hey, evolution sounds kind of like what happened in Genesis... A little... Maybe..."
Take dinosaurs for another. Before fossils were found, no one thought that the monsters described in the Bible were giant lizards that had once roamed the Earth in abundance. Now that the existence of dinosaurs is well established, people look in their Bibles and say "Hey, the Bible mentions dragons and large monsters. They must have meant dinosaurs!"
If you take the beliefs of a modern-day Christian (non-fundie) and compare them with the beliefs of an early 1800s Christian, they will have very different interpretations of the Bible. Christians take science and fit it into their book, even if it is intellectual equivalent of fitting a square peg in a circular hole.
Science means,
Learn.Something.New.Every.Day.
Rational people are extremely frustrated with the bible, because it is the rational impulse to examine the observed discrepancies with an eye to expanding our understanding of Everything.
The bible is full of discrepancies that are ritually [and pointlessly] defended by slobbering zombie slaves.
Ugh.
Science changes overtime to correct mistakes, introduce new evidence and so on. The Bible isn't changed...
It's like water. Either it's running, or it becomes a swampy puddle.
Both are made by men - and thus flawed.
Only one is constantly changing and correcting itself.
I don't think your argument is saying what you meant it to.
"Science constantly changes and disproves it's own discoveries"
Does science really 'disprove' its discoveries all that often?
Which is quite different from the creationists who try to draw science as something random with people shouting 'rewrite!' every time they need a grant...
Confused?
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