Are religion and science compatible?

   He showed what the children who run the internet will accept as an explanation despite it being insane.

A. You didn't specify exactly what you were looking for, but there are other videos easily to be found on YouTube which may suit you better. However there comes a point when one feels you are rejecting what is provided for reasons other than what is clearly being exampled. 

B. What you actually said was " faith in science was just as bad as faith in religion." where my point was, and still is, that faith is simply not of the same type for everything. For instance the faith that heart transplants occur is not the same as the faith that a virgin was magically impregnated by a deity, or that Covid can best be cured by a vaccine rather than dunking your head in holy water. We, including you, do not give everything in life equal weight, but use reason to distinguish matters - both points you didn't deny. So why aren't you here? As for the rating of our beliefs, evidence and proof help out. For most of us anyway. Those without such just end up being credulous about any old thing, which really can be preposterous. Of course blind faith in anything can be dangerous. But that is not what is being distinguished here.

C. Thank you for another non sequitur.

   That means on the whole, not in every little example detail.  People who believe in science believe in some more and some less believable things.  People who believe in religion believe in some more and some less believable things.  The people who believe in science believe just as unbelievable things just as often.  That's what I meant and exactly what those words say.   Actually faith in science is often worse.  Where did you get the idea every instance of belief in science or religion is equal?  I told you before, but you don't like to discuss that.

   It has never been quantified with the precision required exactly what various people believe in various things in order to use the word "equal."  I did not use that word.  You merely imagined it because you imagined some scenario where every little belief was equal or summed up equal.  You are filling in details that make no sense.  "Just as bad" might indeed be exactly the case at one time or another, but with normal changes it cannot be tracked exactly how equal.  Again, it is more often the case that science appears worse.  You got all excited about not failing when indeed you did fail.  It is often because your concept of precision is so very unrealistic and annoying.

   Another mentally retarded person here reads surveys as if they are high precision exercises.  He also has an unrealistic concept of precision.  You expect all "science" to have the precision of science ceteris paribus.  I explained how statistical analysis usually cannot even come close to such precision.

   The bottom line here is that "equality" is not relevant to this discussion as I explained, whatever you imagine I meant.  "Equality" might be meaningful in science ceteris paribus, which you incorrectly think you can use all the time.  Attempting to be more precise than is realistically possible does not make you seem more intelligent.  You cannot know the age of the Earth to within two percent.  Are infinite expanses of space different than infinite expanses of time?  Certainly.  What does that have to do with the discussion of first causes?  Nothing.

   Notice the patterns.

   Apples are just as bad as oranges?  There is nothing wrong with the sentence.  Notice however it is comparing different things.  The notion of "equality" doesn't apply.  It means in a certain context they are "just" as bad.  Their "equality" is just the random meanderings of your never present mind.  One of your many failures is noticing context.  Have you seen those websites that list "hundreds" of "contradictions" in the Bible?  It is like the people who sponsor those websites never heard of context.  Those are not really contradictions, not even one of them.

   One reason you try to ignore context, or argue it down, is your tragically simple mind.  You want simple sentences that apply to everything no matter the context.  If a book of the Bible says it is "to the Philippians" it might have lessons that can be extracted for Americans or Russians, but perhaps not exactly.  They are not Philippians.  Notice you quote me out of context.  Where is that context?

   Of course the websites with the "hundreds" of "contradictions" in the Bible are still there.  That's because the people who sponsor them are very severely mentally retarded, almost as bad as you.  Somewhere along the line you must have crossed up some really evil people.  Maybe you got too close to the girlfriend of a Satanist.  I don't know what drugs or chemicals or injuries they inflicted on you, but it was really bad.

   You never got over the childish notion that definitions exist outside anyone using them.  They do not.  You keep insisting on what "words" mean instead of what "people" mean when they use them.  Again, you have utterly no sense of context.  That is very rude and annoying, but I doubt you can help yourself.  You simply have no sense of surroundings.

   Many people today think that if anyone is "religious" it means they failed science.  The opposite is usually the case.  People who consider themselves "scientific" in all things failed everything else including much science.

  

People should not have faith in science. However, since I'm not a scientist, I have to expend some trust that science will provide answers to the questions posed it, because I understand its methods and ethics. I am skeptical of pseudoscience and faith-based claims as they have proven time and again to be untrustworthy. 

And what advice do you have for a person who does not "know things" with their intuition? Should I just trust those who say they do know, no questions asked, or should I be skeptical of them?

And I have no idea what exists beyond the body, but here yet again, you twist what people write into something else. If I say you seem like a spiritual person, why would you think I have a strong feeling you are a spirit existing beyond your body? Please connect the dots on that.  

That is, unless you count the strong feeling I have that I am a spirit different from and perhaps existing beyond my body.

Then please explain what this sentence means.