tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post113966037009215732..comments2023-10-03T19:47:34.084+11:00Comments on Dialectic: Regarding ‘Benedict Takes The Pepsi Challenge’, Roman Catholicism and ScienceEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986439579966977930noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1139981094786052632006-02-15T16:24:00.000+11:002006-02-15T16:24:00.000+11:00My comment was intentionally flippant, I just want...My comment was intentionally flippant, I just wanted to defy your 'don't bother replying to this' proclamation. That said, sadly you were to my knowledge mostly right about the Catholic church's official stance and history of interaction with science - that it is not as antagonistic as often characterised, or as the the potestant tradition has been. That said, individual christians are often Captain Kickarsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09761360601256251604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1139801782256115892006-02-13T14:36:00.000+11:002006-02-13T14:36:00.000+11:00Okay…Firstly, Rowan the prohibition on contracepti...Okay…<BR/><BR/>Firstly, Rowan the prohibition on contraception is a moral one. While I agree that the prohibition is wrong, you have to understand that morally the Roman Catholic views sex as an act of procreation and that whether or not intercourse results in a child is a divine prerogative. To use contraception, in this account, is to usurp God’s role in the continued creation of life, which isMHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1139792604377417372006-02-13T12:03:00.000+11:002006-02-13T12:03:00.000+11:00then they wuld be prepared to accept that God does...<I>then they wuld be prepared to accept that God doesn't exist, for this postion is certainly considered scientifically acceptable</I><BR/><BR/>Oh please give me a break!<BR/><BR/>Scientifically acceptable and scientifically provable are not even remotely equivalent. All that the Catholic position need accept to be consistent, is that it is scientifically acceptable that science cannot prove the Samuel Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12348284792143801649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1139746853519055632006-02-12T23:20:00.000+11:002006-02-12T23:20:00.000+11:00And yet they still will not let you use contracept...And yet they still will not let you use contraceptive devices, a decision made by the pope who I would think is the least qualified to make such decisions, and as such I deride your claims to quilification and say I am better qualified and that you are wrong. With that I say good day to you sir.Captain Kickarsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09761360601256251604noreply@blogger.com