Science alone can be accredited for the human race still being here. Think of all the terrible plagues that have wiped out civilizations. Would you rather your doctor stand over you and pray smallpox doesn't kill you? Religion was needed when there was no science in the world because someone you knew and loved died nearly every day. They had to believe there was some reason for it, and without critical thinking skills, the easiest way to explain why pestilence had killed all of your children was "it's the will of God".
Thanks to science, we don't need that anymore. To believe in God requires faith and faith alone, because there is no evidence such an invisible omniscient being exists. Science is conclusions drawn from facts. If someone had murdered someone you love, and all the evidence pointed to one person, but the court would only allow people's declarations of faith that he either did or didn't do it, how would you feel? What if the majority of the people got on the stand and said they had faith that he didn't do it, and that was the only evidence admissible. Not the DNA found at the scene, nor his finger prints on the handle of the knife.
It makes me so angry when I think of all the times people have stood in the way of science in the name of their god throughout history. Just think of the progress that was stifled because of what I consider to be silly superstitious myths from the Dark Ages. Just think of what we could be curing, or where we could be going without the hindrance of religion.
Thanks to science, we don't need that anymore. To believe in God requires faith and faith alone, because there is no evidence such an invisible omniscient being exists. Science is conclusions drawn from facts. If someone had murdered someone you love, and all the evidence pointed to one person, but the court would only allow people's declarations of faith that he either did or didn't do it, how would you feel? What if the majority of the people got on the stand and said they had faith that he didn't do it, and that was the only evidence admissible. Not the DNA found at the scene, nor his finger prints on the handle of the knife.
It makes me so angry when I think of all the times people have stood in the way of science in the name of their god throughout history. Just think of the progress that was stifled because of what I consider to be silly superstitious myths from the Dark Ages. Just think of what we could be curing, or where we could be going without the hindrance of religion.
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