Quote Originally Posted by Torian View Post
Gotta agree with you there, I've always held the belief that religion has been holding back science in its advancement because important religious figures found the project to be "inhumane", "act against God", "dangerous", etc etc. What's funny is that they're now going to cover their interest in this subject up by stating that "well God gave us the miracle of life here, it's only natural that he did so on other planets aswell", and of course people will buy into it.
Agreed, now to quote something a wise man once said: "Can god microwave a burrito so hot that even he couldn't eat it?" It may seem a simple rhetoric, but the implications are huge, and it is another aspect of theology organised religion has been unable to answer.

If you put forward the concept of Darwinian evolution to most die hard Christians, they'll discredit you and say something along the lines of "creationism, not evolution. The earth is 6,000 years old." But by doing so they're limiting the power of their God. If God existed, by their own admission he could have created/allowed evolution through natural selection, in which case the scientists would be the true Christians, and not the Christians themselves.

I'll repeat: organised religion on earth is flawed, and you'd be a fool to take it all so literally.