Nonsense. Christians are supposed to base their beliefs on reason.
1 Peter 3:15
But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD...
Explain how these verses fit into the dichotomy you have contrived. Seriously, how anyone can believe critical thinking belongs only to one world view is beyond me.
"Always be prepared to give an answer" says nothing about critical thinking or evidence based logic. As for Isaiah, I'm kind of surprised that you took that completely out of context. That passage is referring to sin not any type of critical thinking. Beyond that it goes on to threaten you with the sword for not believing. Great examples of critical thinking you have there.
I have not claimed that critical thinking only belongs to science. Merely that critical thinking is a central tenet of science and that science and religion at there base philisophical elements are incompatible. All religion asserts what we at this point in time cannot know; science makes reasonble predictions on the natural world based on evidence. I'll put forth a hypothetical scenario ; lets say all evidence points to a god. That still give no justification for the claim of heaven, hell, the devil or any other claims of religion. Unless this god appears to everyone and confirms those assertions it is not valid.
If science one day leads to the conclusion that there is a god thats fine. That will be the day they are compatible to whatever extent.
Just because man can study the nueral substrates of mental process and we have developed an entire field of Psychiartry based on Clinical Neuroscience does not apply to being able to 'prove' love or any other emotion exists. What physical attributes my system produces when I 'feel' love or loved is completely different from the next man or woman. It is unpredicatable...therefore not reliable....it's an educated guess which is no different IMO from the faith that those who believe in God have. Emotions can not be bottled up and places under a microscope. There is no tangible evidence of love or hate or disbelief.
Really? You’re going the "you can't really prove this exists" route? We can in fact measure love; we can measure brain activity to deduce that one is in love with someone. So yes we can prove it and yes we measure it and no your brain is not much different then anyone elses. Sorry to break it to you. They may not be 'bottled up" under a microscope but they are under a electroencephalogram.
For if theology is based on truth it is impossible to conquer the truth but the truth must never be in conflict with science or else we can never know the truth.
Here is the problem; right now most of religion is in conflict with science. From the evolution nay sayers to the creation myths. So I guess..Poor Thomas.
It's very different. For one thing, I don't make claims about other religions that I can't backup, which is precisely what you did. And for another, arguing that one religion is correct over another is fundamentally different than arguing that science, a way of studying the natural world, is incompatible with religion. I think what you meant to say is that religion is incompatible with your naturalistic world view, and that I agree with.
By take an asserted position you are making a claim about other religions.