Should religions be immune to scientific scrutiny? [Spirituality & Religion]

@GreenGoddess Not all religious people ignore scientific facts.

@JP1119 Then they aren't really religious. If you believe in science you can't believe in religion because science discredits everything you believe.

@GreenGoddess First of all, everyone is religious. Being religious is part of the human condition. What I mean is that everyone is constantly changing according to their own perceived ultimacy. In short, everybody worships something.

I am a Christian. Science cannot prove that God doesn't exist. I believe the scientific fact, for example, that the world is millions of years old, not just a few thousand years old as one might believe if they interpreted the Bible literally.

That doesn't mean I'm not a Christian, here's why: I believe that the Bible was written by imperfect human hands and may contain some (especially scientific and historical) errors. Furthermore, I don't interpret the Bible strictly literally, I believe where it says that the world was created in "seven days" that that doesn't necessarily mean seven twenty-four hour periods, each of those "days" may actually mean perhaps thousands or even millions of years. Finally, I believe that the Bible was not meant to be a book of science or history, it was meant to be a spiritual guide to living your life, so I can read a science book when I want to learn science and read the Bible to help me make important life decisions.

Fair enough ☺.