Just because we believe in God doesn't mean we don't also believe in science.
Religious threads are always closed.
But.. science is a direct opposition to religion.. I mean the theory of human existence is through evolution.. while the bible talks about creation by god.. I know you obviously believe in gravity and ****, but that is not what I am talking about at all
Not wanting to have anything to do with religion isn't a gay thing though, it's a common sense thing.
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Simply claiming that people who affiliate with a religion lack common sense is judging in the exact same way that most opponents of organized religion dislike!
Let me just quote Albert Einstein "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world." This quote sums up my position on the possibility of science and religion peacefully coexisting much better than anything I could say. Albert Einstein was a genius, a scientist, and he had a religion.
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What most people tend to forget without religion we would not have science. The first literature humanity read were the Book of Gods. And the main foundation of science, which people tend to forget, is Islam. With Islam you start to learn about the Cosmo's, we get medical improvements and we learn more about our purpose. For example, Why does Allah (God) talk about the bee and emphasis the importance of the bees in the Quran? Later in the 20th century we find out that we need Bees to pollen ate our flowers and plants in order for the world to work, without the Bees how would the natural world work.
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How could evolution and religion go along? Well, similarly to everyday society. Does the engineered product remain the same forever? Or, is it innovated to contain more functions and develop enhanced abilities? It is innovated just like humans. They may have started primitive yet God improves us over time so we would and could passionately understand the world he has created. To believe that religion could be treated like bedtime stories is like saying that morals are optional. Unfortunately, many dense people believe the latter. Religion has similar aspects to science. For example, cause and effect (commit a wrong act, face negative consequences) or a hypothesis supported by evidence (the easy way does not always create the best results; building a house out of sand may be faster than building out of stones yet the latter is more formidable towards storms than the former). The definitions may be different, yet the concepts are similar.
would you care to elaborate how that works? it's the first time I heard of such a thing..
uhm.. now I do agree with everyone else... everyone has the right to believe what they want to believe in
Well, there are a lot of Physicists who demonstrate how science points to a divine creator; Albert Einstein being the most celebrated said:
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. (Albert Einstein)
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)
So, even though he didn't practice a particular religion, Science showed him that a God was responsible for the Universe.
at people thinking that science cancels out religion. There are plenty of arguments that support the fact that religion and science can co-exist (I'd be able to tell you them if I didn't drop out of Philosophy after 2 weeks but I know that there are plenty of convincing arguments )
You would have learned that the existence of a god is an unfalsifiable hypothesis. It cannot be proven to be true, and cannot be proven to not be true.
Sort of like Santa Claus. You can't prove he exists, and you can't prove he doesn't exist. And what do humans do when there is no evidence in something? We assume it doesn't exist until sufficient evidence is presented.
As Christopher Hitchens said, "That which can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
I'm Atheist, but I respect religions and recognize the good that can come from them.
One thing that confuses me is why some catholics expect the gays to show respect to their pope when he doesn't have the human decency to respect us?
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Simply claiming that people who affiliate with a religion lack common sense is judging in the exact same way that most opponents of organized religion dislike!
Sis if you wanna believe in God or some flying spaghetti monster in the sky is your business Go 'head and do you.
Neither Catholicism nor any major branch of Christianity nor any other of the world's major religions nor any of their respective branches will disappear at any point in the near future.
Sis if you wanna believe in God or some flying spaghetti monster in the sky is your business Go 'head and do you.
That's a good attitude to have towards other people's beliefs... It's the people that seem to think that they're allowed to bash and hate on others but turn around and protest when people don't agree with their beliefs that bother me.
