The Problem with Christians

[FebruaryOfReason]

Same here.  I've never had a problem saying, 'I don't know.'  Theists seem to think that because I personally don't have the answer to their question that there is NO answer to their question.  I appreciate that they think I'm the be-all and end-all of human knowledge, but (prepare yourself for a shock) there are some things I simply don't know.

Boru

Me too. That's the whole point, isn't it?

The scientific method provides a space for not knowing. It's all about investigating the things we don't know. And it's very successful. Time and time again it has been effective in discovering things that we didn't know before.

But for a theist, if something isn't written in their book of old bollocks, they've got nowhere else to go.

Two hundred years ago, we had no clue what caused diseases. The priests told us it was our fault and ordered us to pray better and give them more fucking money. We still kept dying like flies.
But the scientists accepted that their own level of knowledge wasn't sufficient. They got down to some hard work, found out about bacteria and microbes, and hey presto! We could stop those diseases.