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Praise Cthulhu
Join Date: Jan 2007
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The initial post is essentially an argument from authority and a loaded question. "Do you think that scientists ever came to their conclusions about god via their scientific discipline? I do and Einstein the magic wizard of all science believed in GOD QED!" It's obvious that scientific knowledge can affect a person's belief in gods or the supernatural as science provides explanations about the universe that by necessity exclude the supernatural. And if you don't need god to explain the origin of life, the birth of stars, the cause of lightning, the march of the seasons, the spread of disease, then why revere god at all? But it's hard for any scientist to actually attempt to study god because god, by its nature, is nebulous and vague and increasingly so as our actual knowledge of the universe increases. By ascribing mysterious powers and motives to gods you have a get-out clause that essentially inoculates religion from a direct challenge from science. You can't test god, say the religious, because god doesn't want to be tested! When somebody lives it was god who saved them and when someone dies then it was part of god's plan. Belief in god is not rational as it requires the believer to make excuses for his deity's actions and inactions all the time. Most scientists are not religious. Religiosity tends to decrease as level of education increases. While science cannot disprove god what is does do is remove the explanatory power of god as our collective knowledge of testable, repeatable and predictive models of the way reality works are improved upon. |
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