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Originally Posted by mewithYou
I think, if they were separated, it'd stop a lot of debating and flaming. I believe that debating is perfectly fine, but when people are asking genuine questions, it doesn't help when every topic turns into: "Science disproves religion, there is no God, there's no evidence," when the related topic has absolutely nothing to do with whether God's existence is real.
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The current religion, philosophy and science forum does allow for debating so that wouldn't stop. I put a suggestion in a while ago to have debating be allowed in here and I was told it was allowed and the rules were clarified on that.
Topics of "science disproves religion" can be interesting but I agree, science addresses the how while religion addresses the why. But there are some debates where science and religion to come together, such as when there are threads regarding creation of organisms on Earth or formation of the universe, there are religious and scientific views. Threads could be for only members of a certain belief but as I've seen on other websites, science sometimes gets convoluted during some of those discussions and these convolutions are then presented in threads open to all believers.
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Originally Posted by mewithYou
I believe, philosophy (perhaps -- it is debatable whether philosophy should belong with religion) and science should have their own section where science and philosophy can co-exist and debate about the existence of God and leave a religion/spirituality section separated from it so that seekers may find genuine help without completely demolishing their threads. |
That makes no sense. The concept of god is a religious one, so religion will automatically have to go into sections with philosophy and science if god is to be discussed. However, science forums may want to discuss things other than the existence or non-existence of a god. I'd be a bit more willing to have separate religion/spirituality sections providing that no science is discussed in them because that leads to members posting their nonsense about something scientific. Main example of this is biological evolution where certain members, mostly those who are religious, post incorrect dribble of evolution and continue to post that dribble even after being told with evidence it is incorrect. I'm all for having religious threads not get destroyed by scientific posts but scientific threads cant get destroyed by religious posts in order to make it fair.
I'd also propose another thing, which is if people who aren't well-versed with a religion post incorrect information about that religion, they should accept and use those corrections. The same goes for when religious members who aren't well-versed in science post incorrect information, they should accept and use those corrections. There have been too many threads where the same individuals post the same dribble despite being told otherwise and it is a real annoyance because they can derail threads by not listening. It's almost as annoying as how many threads turn into whether god exists or not.
For diversity though, for a separate religious section, why not have it discuss religions other than Christianity?
However, where would philosophy go if there were to be two separate sections? It applies to both, so should there be two separate sections and each have philosophy?
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Originally Posted by mewithYou
I don't know if anyone agrees with me on it, but it gets irritated going through threads trying to find genuine questions while weeding out the 70000 posts debating the existence of God. It literally seems like EVERY thread turns to that and I figured I'd bring it here to see if anyone agrees with me on this before bringing it elsewhere. However, I realize that posting here will probably (ironically) turn this thread into another thread debating the existence of God.
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You are right, many threads do turn into debates of whether god exists or not, however, in defense to some of that, some of those threads do debate whether god exists or not. Not all threads are dedicated to that but some of them are.