![]() How does God work, BTW? He must have been so busy helping everybody's team win 50% of their games, and getting rid of their headaches after they took an aspirin, that he just didn't have time to cure childhood leukemia, or to help _all_ the victims of that plane crash. You make the claim God is real, it's your burden to prove it. But you wouldn't call your disbelief in those gods "a religion." Add Yahweh to that list and that disbelief still does not achieve the status of "religion." That is called "special pleading" if adding any single god changes the argument. You don't believe that Zeus, Vishnu, Allah, Odin, FSM, or thousands of other gods described by people over the centuries are real. It's a polite way of saying all those stories about all those all-powerful genies are fake. Science wins because it works.Ītheism is not a "religion". And that knowledge is quite useful in our endeavors in agriculture, animal husbandry, protecting endangered species, and medicine to name a few. Evolution is a theory that has been proven repeatedly by multiple lines of independent evidence. Good theories-proven theories-are backed by evidence, and eventually, stuff that works. Science would have died on the vine had it not produced meaningful knowledge. Even the most humble of technologies have a theory behind it. It's dishonest to knock science down to the epistemological level of religion by saying "it's only a theory." The Theory of Electricity has brought you the Internet Germ Theory has brought you better health and sanitation various aerodynamic theories brought us airplanes. Science doesn't esteem faith by calling faith a virtue, because there is no virtue in believing things with insufficient evidence. Science is driven by evidence, reason, and intellectual honesty. Your "faith" seems to color your conceptions of what knowledge is, and you falsely apply that standard to science. I could be wrong on a point or two, but the odds are on my side.įaith is belief based on insufficient or non-existent evidence. Odds are, you haven't read the Bible straight through cover-to-cover. Odds are, you accept what others tell you about the Bible on faith. Odds are, you get your science from non-scientists. Odds are, you are aware of inconsistencies but brush them aside because that is easier than challenging your long-held indoctrinated-from-birth beliefs. Odds are, as an adult, you only value confirming evidence. Odds are, you accepted it as a child before learning any critical thinking skills. Odds are, you were born into your religion-lucky you, born into the One True branch of the One True denomination of the One True religion. Then I will tie your comments back to my original comment and the song. No doubt you are trying to be helpful, but let me give you a few things to think about and study. ![]() Since you started, I will return the favor. Thanks for the undesired proselytizing, Meekliniz. Ooh, baby, it's a long way, a long long long way The good Lord speaks like a rolling thunder The wolves will chase you by the pale moonlight Wash him deep where the tides are turning His hair's on fire and his heart is burning The Lord's gonna come for your first born son The cock's gonna call in the morning, baby ![]() ![]() Ooh, baby, it's a long way down, a long way down Ooh, baby, it's a long way down to the bottom of the river
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