Quote:With all due respect, abandoning intellect for self-contentedness is the epitome of lazy stupidity and is the furthest thing away from the scientific method, you can only succeed in science with sufferage and sacrifice, quite the same as religion, only with different results.
Wow you really don't get it do you. Practicality matters in the real world. Every second there's someone out there claiming something. They are the ones who have to convince people that what they're claiming is worth anyone's time. No one is obligated to go check out their claims. God is not worth my time, because its chance of existing is so very very slim. For all intents and purposes it might as well not exist.
Who's abandoning intellect here? This is absurd. If i were to devote my time to go search for this god i'm abandoning tons of things that i'm doing right now. Why should god be more important? when there's no proof at all that this thing is more than a human imagination?
In fact I don't even know why people bother to call themselves agnostic. I don't even know why dawkins came up with a 7 point scale. These things are not worth the time. Well at least no one has convinced me that it's worth the time to consider god exists.
And by the way, that is how research works in this world. Not every project gets funded, because there's limited resources. You have to write a proposal and convince people to spend money on your project. So now i guess all those who wants us to take god seriously must convince us that it's not a waste of time.
