“It is easier to say ‘it isn’t real’ than to say ‘it is real, but I don’t want to fix it’ because that would make me a bad person. We reach for these denial arguments to salve our consciences.” @katharinehayhoe.com
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There is a conflict between faith and reality.
Since science seeks to uncover reality, unless faith is willing to adapt there will always be conflict. And one thing we know about organised religion is it does not tolerate dissent or change easily.
It doesn't solve the fundamental problem, though.
Religion teaches people to believe without evidence.
When contradictory evidence comes along, it teaches them to reject that evidence.
That's always going to be a problem.
Hebrews says that faith is the evidence of what we do NOT see. Science is the opposite: the evidence of what we do see.
I think we need to agree to disagree.
I wish you success, though. If more Christians were like you then they would be doing a lot less damage to the world the rest of us are forced to share with them.
This occurs for most every act of exploitation. Compartmentalization & denial is now at a maladaptive level & the consequences look to be horrific. If we don't evolve culturally to deal with this, our future is dubious.