Conversion and Science

Interesting article about young people converting to Christianity and Islam:

Religion Trends :: God is the new drug of choice for today’s young rebels

The disturbing part comes at the end. A Muslim convert says this:

“I think that they had a real belief in conventional politics and
government: whether it was the socialism of the 1970s, or the
conservative liberalism that came along later. There was a real sense
back then that those movements would solve all the world’s ills, but
they didn’t. I think it’s maybe as a result of that that young people
are now more open to religion, and particularly Islam, which allows for
science and logic”.

Christianity, implicitly, is not seen as allowing for science and logic. How different from centuries ago – it wasn’t all the Vatican versus Galileo. Theology was the queen of sciences and scientific research was lauded as thinking God’s thoughts after him. Has a mess of half-baked creationism reduced us to this?

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