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Old 08-02-2005, 04:50 PM
TheRedDragon TheRedDragon is offline
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Default Re: A rant about religion

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I asked plenty of questions that obviously had no answer.

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Like what?

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I do not see the difference between religion and mythology. Greeks prayed to multiple gods because there was no reasonable explination for something so they created a god for it. For example, they had a sun god that controlled whether the sun rose or not that day, and if they did not praise the god, the sun would not rise. As technology and science knowledge has risen exponentially, these myths have easily been accepted as untrue. Obviously we know now that the sun rises and sets because the Earth orbits the sun, and because of the rotation of Earth. One thing science has yet to prove is how life was created. This is the only reason that religion can still be taken seriously. What if someday in the future science can PROVE that humans indeed evolved and Darwin was in fact correct?

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Religion's greatest contribution isn't providing explanations for physical events. Indeed, most modern religions don't attempt to do this. Rather "the point" of most modern faiths is largely concerned with providing a moral and spiritual basis for living a good life.

My faith wouldn't be at all shaken should some explanation for the development of life by random means be "proven", although most assuredly the theory would not be Mr. Darwin's outmoded gradualistic one.

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When it comes to religion, pick any of them, people still believe what they are told with 100% certainty.

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This is just flat out false. Implicit in the idea of faith is a lack of certainty. You don't "believe" in something of which you're 100% certain; you know it. As a Catholic, doubt is an integral part of my faith.

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With how much science has advanced in even the past few hundred years, I can not comprehend how people can still believe in God. One day science will also explain how the universe was created and the religious fanatics will still be in denial.

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Statements like this make me seriously doubt how much you've studied either science or religion. It is not by accident that many of the great scientists are and were religious men. Their examination of the universe lent itself to a powerful faith that such a system did not emerge by chance.

There's a trend away from absolute knowledge in modern science. Uncertainty principle and all that jazz. We used to think that if we were able to understand the smallest pieces of matter, the rest of the puzzle of the universe's mysteries would naturally fall into place. As we've gotten closer, we've become increasingly disillusioned.

Science cannot disprove God. That doesn't mean that He necessarily exists, but it does mean that holding up scientific advancement as something that disproves him is ridiculous.
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