(November 25, 2012 at 2:30 am)journeyinghowie Wrote: Can anyone give me a scientific reason not to be a "believer"?
A Scientific reason: the observable fact that there is more than one religion.
These religions are, for the most part (at least) mutually exclusive. That means that, at best, only a small set of religions can be true.
Which means that all the others are wrong.
How did these come to be? hmmm... human imagination! There's no other way.
How do we figure out which religion, if any, is the correct one?
As far as I'm aware, we can't.
- Number of believers is just a measure of how gullible people are, or how aggressively the belief in that particular deity was enforced.
- Written word... completely falsifiable by humans.
- I'd expect some actual interaction of this deity with our world, but we see no such interaction.
If we can't decide on which religion is true, then.... the most honest option is that all are likely false and man-made!
