RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
December 6, 2016 at 12:51 pm
I always love when someone tries to make the claim that you need science AND religion for whatever reason. At least it's a step up from the normal "religion is/trumps science" claims.
The truth, though, is that meaning is assigned to life by the one living it, not a higher power. If you believe a higher power assigned meaning to your life the reality is that you CHOSE to allow that higher power to assign meaning to your life, meaning that YOU assigned meaning to your life. And even if you're right about the higher power existing you're really only having a guess at what meaning it assigned to your life, meaning that, again, it is YOU who assigned that meaning. Ask a thousand Christians what meaning God has assigned to life and I'm sure you'll get more than one answer. To be a good person, to serve God in this way or that, to bring as many people into the fold as possible, possibly even that there is no meaning to life, it's only the afterlife that matters. That you won't get the same answer consistently shows 2 things. One, that the religious organization hasn't assigned enough importance to the question to assign an answer to their followers, in which case THEY have assigned your life meaning. And 2, that people are just saying whatever they think the meaning is supposed to be. So in the end, theist or atheist, it is each one of us that assigns meanings to our own live, or lets someone else do it for us. But whatever meaning we think life has, that meaning was given us by purely terrestrial sources.
The truth, though, is that meaning is assigned to life by the one living it, not a higher power. If you believe a higher power assigned meaning to your life the reality is that you CHOSE to allow that higher power to assign meaning to your life, meaning that YOU assigned meaning to your life. And even if you're right about the higher power existing you're really only having a guess at what meaning it assigned to your life, meaning that, again, it is YOU who assigned that meaning. Ask a thousand Christians what meaning God has assigned to life and I'm sure you'll get more than one answer. To be a good person, to serve God in this way or that, to bring as many people into the fold as possible, possibly even that there is no meaning to life, it's only the afterlife that matters. That you won't get the same answer consistently shows 2 things. One, that the religious organization hasn't assigned enough importance to the question to assign an answer to their followers, in which case THEY have assigned your life meaning. And 2, that people are just saying whatever they think the meaning is supposed to be. So in the end, theist or atheist, it is each one of us that assigns meanings to our own live, or lets someone else do it for us. But whatever meaning we think life has, that meaning was given us by purely terrestrial sources.
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