Quote from: Spendulus on August 31, 2018, 06:38:47 PM

Quote from: De Mukerere on August 31, 2018, 05:59:13 PM

.....There are several things happening in our present day, that men predicted accurately several years back without scientific aid. Today, meteorologist forecast weather conditions and the world is celebrating. In my traditional religion, there are so many feats these men achieve at a lower cost than using scientific methods. Examples include finding missing items, controlling weather condition etc.....

I don't think so.

I am quite familiar with modern weather forecasting. It's quite good up to 10 days, and this has came to be by using supercomputers.

Weather forecasting is not "a feat" but it is impossible for it to be a thing that could be claimed to be done by a religion.

Don't get so excited about weather forecast 10 days ahead cos in my local traditional religion, those guys can't just only forecast weather, they can as well control it. On a rainy day, they can stop the rain. In the midst of rainy season, the can withhold rain for days up to a week and beyond. That's what I'm talking about. Paradventure our central government was committed to scientific developments, they would have sent guys to go check how those people are producing such results and see if they could refine it scientifically. Now, if they had done so and published it on journals you would celebrate the end product relegating the source to junk. And like I said, this is one of their numerous abilities.
However, scientific forecast is limited. There are areas of life you can't predict the future on but religion is doing marvellously well. I guess you know "Nostrademus!". He is a global figure. You may check out his predictions or forecast then you will understand what I am talking about. Note that he is just one man. There are several men like him. It's just that his work gained global prominence. These conflict in ideas has been hampering our harnessing our potential because one group will think they are better than the other. They will want to strive for suproirity rather than seek partnership.
Let's see these two regions of ontology as different means to one end. Let us not discard religion on one or few premise like most people do.

Quote from: zcooipo on August 30, 2018, 07:06:45 AM

Science is about evidence. Any published speech must be supported by evidence to get everyone's approval, and religion relies on faith! Faith from the heart

Quote from: darklus123 on August 31, 2018, 12:59:20 AM

Most religions seem to be incompatible with each other.

Religious nut jobs are forever killing every one else in the name of their one true god, same cant be said about mathematicians.

Most people contributing in this thread do not know the history of most scientific developments they see today. Go back to history of science and you will see that science didn't even start in Europe. Most of your reference are from Europe. The basic ideas that those Europeans started with were mostly from Africa, Egypt to be precise and Asia, particularly China. And these were highly religious entities with China still preserving it religion because most of their discoveries came from their priests, monks etc.
So friends, let us stop promoting one at the expense of the other. Our forefathers might have done that because they were overwhelmed let's make amends. Let's try to look at what the religious world is saying and see if we can verify them scientifically. Let's stop this tossle for glory. Let us take a hollistic look at them with intentions of improving the lot of mankind.

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