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A scientific reason to not believe?
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RE: A scientific reason to not believe?
(November 26, 2012 at 3:26 am)apophenia Wrote:
(November 25, 2012 at 11:21 am)pocaracas Wrote: 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!

You neglect the much larger class of religions which nobody has invented, described or endorsed, but which hit on all the same cylinders as the exemplars provided. This class is not necessarily infinite, but it is so uncountably huge that the probability of any one religion - known and/or imagined, or neither - being the correct one, converges on zero pretty dramatically. If you were a betting man, you'd be more likely to collect on a wager that you'd be hit by lightning three times on your way to work than that you've chosen the right one. Yet people still leave their houses, and still find reasons to believe.
Indeed I did neglect those, but since our OP is looking for scientific reasons, I'd think that the inclusion of not yet imagined beings would be a bit of a stretch.
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A scientific reason to not believe? - by journeyinghowie - November 25, 2012 at 2:30 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cyberman - November 25, 2012 at 2:32 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by journeyinghowie - November 25, 2012 at 2:41 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cyberman - November 25, 2012 at 3:41 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by The realest - December 3, 2012 at 6:01 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cyberman - December 5, 2012 at 7:34 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by FallentoReason - December 4, 2012 at 9:27 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Waratah - November 25, 2012 at 2:33 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by cratehorus - November 25, 2012 at 2:36 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Annik - November 25, 2012 at 2:37 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Annik - November 25, 2012 at 2:48 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by journeyinghowie - November 25, 2012 at 3:07 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Norfolk And Chance - November 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Mister Agenda - November 27, 2012 at 4:10 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Annik - November 25, 2012 at 3:10 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by journeyinghowie - November 25, 2012 at 3:17 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Gilgamesh - November 25, 2012 at 3:58 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by genkaus - November 26, 2012 at 2:45 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Ryantology - November 25, 2012 at 3:16 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Annik - November 25, 2012 at 3:19 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by cratehorus - November 25, 2012 at 3:43 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Creed of Heresy - November 25, 2012 at 4:16 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Voltron - November 25, 2012 at 4:16 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by KichigaiNeko - November 25, 2012 at 5:15 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by downbeatplumb - November 25, 2012 at 5:37 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by KichigaiNeko - November 25, 2012 at 7:58 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Welsh cake - November 25, 2012 at 5:36 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Zen Badger - November 25, 2012 at 7:09 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by pocaracas - November 25, 2012 at 11:21 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Angrboda - November 26, 2012 at 3:26 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by pocaracas - November 26, 2012 at 5:46 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Napoléon - November 25, 2012 at 2:47 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by The Grand Nudger - November 25, 2012 at 3:53 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cato - November 25, 2012 at 5:21 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by KichigaiNeko - November 27, 2012 at 2:15 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cyberman - November 27, 2012 at 4:03 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Kirbmarc - November 27, 2012 at 4:27 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Vincenzo Vinny G. - November 28, 2012 at 12:24 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Gilgamesh - November 28, 2012 at 12:27 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by overlord fombax - November 28, 2012 at 4:04 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cyberman - November 28, 2012 at 3:52 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Vincenzo Vinny G. - November 30, 2012 at 12:49 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cato - November 30, 2012 at 12:55 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by ThomM - December 1, 2012 at 9:09 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Darkstar - December 4, 2012 at 5:48 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Jackalope - December 3, 2012 at 1:36 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Voltron - December 3, 2012 at 1:45 am
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Cato - December 4, 2012 at 6:17 pm
RE: A scientific reason to not believe? - by Lion IRC - December 4, 2012 at 9:32 pm

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