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49. What’s the difference between breaking a rule of logic, miscalculating a mathematical formula and raping, lying or killing?
An Attempt at Undermining Atheism and Science
This question comes to us via this article on Medium:
Now, this article is promoting religion as is evidenced by their very name “Street Theologian.” So, let us get the proper orientation for it first.
What the religious person sees when they see this question is that raping, lying, and killing are offenses to God and are sinful. God will punish the sinful for such “mistakes.”
Then, the scientist can make a “mistake” too, which might be to misapply a rule of logic. A mathematician might make a mistake in deriving a new math formula reaching an incorrect result.
Next, the religious person apparently is expected to relate the “mistakes” of sin with the “mistakes” of the scientist. Both are wrong. Thus, both are sinful. And, maybe even the leap is supposed to be made that man is a sinful creature…
