[Sca-cooks] Faith and chellenges

[tom.vincent at yahoo.com]

That's the benefit of the scientific process:  When presented by compelling evidence to the contrary, scientific documents are changed to include the new, more accurate information.
 
Could you please provide a few examples of religions that have had 'oops' moments and corrected their documents accordingly?
 
For example, in the Christian Bible, there's an amazing number of passages about slaves:  How to treat them, how to acquire them and so on, but not ONE SINGLE passage saying that slavery is wrong!
 
So, to this day, nearly 150 years after slavery was outlawed in this country, Christianity is still teaching how to manage slaves!  Shouldn't the bible be re-written to remove references to slavery?  It was legal (and apparently moral) when written, now it's not.
 
Duriel
 
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When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance or distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am friend of its happiness; when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government.
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Faith and chellenges


I find Anne-Marie's grounding in beliefs about reserch sciences to be
refreshing, reassuring and similar to mine.  It is the "god gap" changes
that have given objective and humble researchers that sense of objective
uncertainty that leads to ongoing investigation of our world.  4 elements
led to the periodic chart of elelments along with the "smallest building
blocks of matter".  Then we found out that atoms have the absolutley
smallest particles ever: Protons, neutrons, and electrons.  Ooops . . ..
scientist weren't exactly right on that one either, no we have gluons, etc.