If I understand your question correctly, because theologians keep trying to take over "our" turf and claim that their religious texts are a better guide to actual reality than science is. If they'd stop that (e.g. the whole creationist movement in the US) then there'd be a lot less trouble.Susie wrote:Then why is anyone even engaging on a scientific basis when they could be engaging more profitably on a philosophical one?gregorach wrote: Of course, the key difference is that in the case of religion, absolutely nobody has any means to establish the "truth", or even whether the entire field of enquiry has any basis at all. The ordinary man in the street may not be able to independently establish the distances to the stars, but he can at least see that they exist.
Although I'd have to disagree that philosophy offers a better approach to the problem... Have you seen any of the ontological arguments for the existence of God? Let's just say there's a reason why most philosophers are atheists...