Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Ah just like how Einstein said that despite the observed evidence the universe can't be expanding.
Like how those who observed the bending of light were ridiculed.
Like how Darwin rejected the fixidity of many plants, and a few bird species, as not worth his time.
Like how Kepler ridiculed the observations of Coperniucs.
Such things are especially a problem with modern science we can no longer rely on our own eyes and have to use immense instrumentation. Modern science is all about disputes over what observations are valid and what are not. It happens all the time, well at least in chemistry which I do.

There are so many different scientific papers released, often contradictory, one has to decide which ones are the most important and why, much like theologians decide which bits of the bible are the most important and why.

And the theologians don't just say "These bits are merely parable becuase I say so". It involves complex literary analysis, finding streams of similarly written texts, finding bits in common and bits that don't fit. There is structure there.