(November 15, 2015 at 11:54 pm)Lek Wrote: Science leaves too many unfilled holes and unanswered questions. I'll need more than what science can teach me before I drop what answers my questions and makes sense of existence.
And this is where theists and atheists often part ways. Science is without a doubt the path to understanding our universe, through trial and error, through inspection and skepticism, through hypothesis and investigation. Religion says, "THIS is the truth. Don't doubt it. Don't question it. We don't NEED evidence to back this stuff up. It just IS. Now, believe it."
Science can admit when it doesn't know something, and certainly science does not yet have all the answers. There are no three words in the English language words more humble and more progressive than, "I don't know." Why? Because that leaves room for new discovery. And is it not more wondrous to anticipate and look forward to discovery, to be content with not knowing for a time, so that you may be able to trust the answer when it does come, knowing that the answer is based on logic, reason, and evidence?
You seem to operate under "god of the gaps". You see a gap in current scientific understanding, and you fill that space with god, and you think that logic works perfectly. "How did the Big Bang happen? God did it!" "How did we get here? God did it!" I suppose you can do that, if it helps you sleep at night. But pressing the easy button - the god button - can only satisfy the ever-progressing human race for so long, know what I mean?
