Kifle wrote:Teflor Lyorian wrote:The Roman Catholics are a great study of how logic works on religion. If you haven't had the opportunity to see how much the church has changed over the years, then you are missing out on a significant portion of my argument. They've left behind notions of a flat earth, that the heavens revolve around the earth, so forth and so on, and are arguably a BETTER determination of when a science is settled than anything else.
Ultimately, religions are like societies, systems of governments, and even philosophical schools: they are made out of people.
Things do change in religion, as much as they do outside of it.
In each of those examples, the myth was dispelled by science and much later taken as fact by the church. Don't forget what they did to Galileo for thinking such preposterous and blasphemous things. The fact that they've later been taken up by the church only shows the complete fallibility of the church, it's texts, the inductions and deductions from the texts, its logic, and their ability to use logic in any way resembling critique. I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Logic never "worked" on religion, it pounded religion until it gave up. Unfortunately, religion keeps throwing bodies at a solid wall expecting it to pass through it, century after century, only to find out there was a door just a few steps down.
Here's the difference in other words, with respect to logic: A good scientist endlessly tries to disprove his theories; a good priest endlessly tries to defend and prove his beliefs.
Do you know a good scientist anywhere? Robert Andrews Millikan anyone?
Priests, by the way, are usually overruled by other priests. As it usually is with scientists.