Marty E: "science is irrelevant"

Peter Beacham: Of course, science is not irrelevant and the Church knows this. There is a battle for truth and supremacy between science and the church in certain areas. This bid for authority is why Catholicism has waged a long battle with science even murdering scientists, Giordano Bruno, for example, who shone truth on ridiculous church teachings, such the earth being the center of the universe. Now, science is again outing the church's smug ignorance in matters related to LGBT people. The Church can't kill these scientists but it can encourage the murder of LGBT people by its ignorant and vengeful pronouncements against them. The result is that people are leaving the church in droves. The smaller the church gets the more it snarls and fights with its back against the wall in a bid to save itself. Instead it could gain converts if it only looked realistically and dispassionately at the truths science presents. Scientific truth isn't contrary to God.