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Originally Posted by pbradley
This show asks philosophical questions to those who are largely unpracticed in, and in some instances resentful of, philosophy.
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thats exactly my problem with this show, it is rather pretentious. It asks big questions to people with small answers. I was hoping for much more but as let down as I was with the God Delusion by Dawkins. Most atheist arguments are as ignorant, baseless and unsophisticated as most common people's defense of theism, and further many scientists and scientifically minded people are as duped, deceived and ignorantly brainwashed to accept the status quo's of science theories and not even delve into theology for a second, where as theologians and philosophers who are wise use science as a tool to expand their own understanding of theology or philosophy. Scientists today are blindly following beliefs without testing them for themselves, which is not science, where as many people in fact find religion the way scientists should be actually searching for the answers instead of dismissing the question.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
we're no longer in the 16h century-- though some people are (e.g. creationists and their ilk-- those who do not understand science, as stated in my first post).
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many scientists are just as ignorant and lacking of understanding of theology, where as quite a few theologians have a rather deep understanding of science and many religious people are practicing scientists, engineers, chemists, doctors etc etc (in other words, theoritical scientists who blindly dismiss theism are ignorant and misunderstand, when there are plenty of religious people who so deeply understand science that they practice its principles for their living. Religion can be for everyone, but some scientists act like its only for priests and ignorant masses, but many religious people are practicing scientists and see no such dichotomy)
In regards to this thread, I do not believe that I posted the questions correctly. I need to watch some clips and discuss some specifics, I was hoping for a more specific kind of discussion based on more specific questions. Those ones I posted are just the titles of the episodes, but in the shows themselves they ask dozens of questions related, and these kinds of questions are the ones I wanted to discuss, such as the Cosmological Argument as I posted above.
I do not see enough science coming from scientific arguments against theism, and I enjoy detailed science, so I am often disappointed. Science is a valuable tool for theology, it asks theology very sophisiticated questions which require heart-felt and intelligent consideration.