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EndoExo t1_iqxmjf8 wrote

Reply to comment by Super_Silky in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

The science community will radically change its views based on evidence, just like they did when later evidence for plate tectonics showed that continental drift was true, or when the evidence backed Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. I can't think of anything similar in religious dogma. Like, pretty much every scholar and archeologist in the world is in agreement that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon, and that the things it describes are historically impossible, but you don't see the LDS Church accepting that evidence.

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Necrosis_KoC t1_iqy3of6 wrote

Science generally has the ability to accept indisputable evidence and realize that "Holy shit, they really were right and we were wrong." Where religions in general have proven incapable of doing so over and over throughout history.

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