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Saturday, March 6, 2021

How Christianity Has Messed Up Science

One of the enduring myths in secular circles is that religious belief has always been in conflict with scientific advance. Historians have repeatedly debunked this myth, but it nevertheless lives on in the minds of those who want it to be true.

The satirical Babylon Bee pokes a little fun at these folks by listing seven ways "Christianity completely ruined science for everybody." They begin by claiming that, "Christianity messes up everything, especially science. Everyone knows that if it weren't for Christianity, the scientists would have solved all our problems and we'd have flying cars by now."

They then proceed to list their seven ways Christianity has been a liability to progress. You'll have to go to the link to see all seven, but here are three:
  • Christianity contributes to the harmful overpopulation of Mother Earth by yucky humans: We know people are the biggest threat to the earth, but Christians keep wanting to protect them, even the unborn ones. They also have a lot of babies and perpetuate the human race. Ignorant!
  • The scientific method was created by a devout Christian, which burdens scientists with restrictive fundamentalist rules: The scientific method limits our science. We're tired of fundamentalist Christians always imposing strict rules. Live a little, for goodness sake!
  • Christianity gives people a transcendent meaning and purpose outside themselves, which is totally lame and anti-science: Science would be so much cooler if we could explore ideas like eugenics and DNA tampering and creating a race of robots to enslave humanity without worrying about morals and objective truth. What would go wrong?
The others are funny, too.