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Originally Posted by Lyenae  Science, in its core ideals (method, reasoning, etc...), is practical and useful. I don't disagree with that. I don't have issues with ideas and theories. I only have problems when scientists move from probability, likelihoods, and to unequivocal fact, truth, etc. They are overstepping their bounds.
Scientists, with experiments, have shown that evolution can happen. The problem is when they insist that it did happen. And when someone comes to this forum claiming that people are uneducated if they don't agree that it did happen, I have issues with that.
I think anyone who makes a claim like that needs to question their own education. You should take a look at personal writings of scientists, engineers, philosophers, etc... throughout time and see their own dilemmas and skepticism in their theories and beliefs.
You'll learn a lot more then any core science textbook (let alone an entire collection.) |
By your own logic, at least science has proved
one half the of origin equation: that evolution can happen.
What has religion ever conclusively proved? Where is its track record?
Even if you insist on discounting the statement that evolution definitely happened, you've conceded that it can happen. So, by your count, right now it's Science 1, Religion 0 in a game to 2 points.
The problem, as someone stated above, is that religion is based on a fundamental, yet highly enticing logical fallacy: the appeal to tradition. "If people have been reading and believing in this book for thousands of years, who am I to doubt it?" "If some really, really old 'prophet' said this was true, and his words have endured for this long, it must be true."
Furthermore, religion closes the door to all skepticism and inquisitive/scientific process. Religion asks you to accept everything you're told and question nothing, with no empirical evidence necessary. "Because God said so" is a sufficient answer to pretty much any question one can ask of the Bible. Would you accept that sort of half-assed logic in a TV show you were following? Probably not. Then why should you accept it as the basis for your life and the world around you?
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