RE: Concerned About Atheisim
March 13, 2014 at 10:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2014 at 10:37 pm by psychoslice.)
(March 13, 2014 at 10:07 pm)Heywood Wrote:(March 13, 2014 at 9:49 pm)psychoslice Wrote: I just hope this is not the case, I do like the atheist way of thinking more than the religious way of thinking, but I just hope we are not getting rid of one monster to be replaced with another.
The desire to impose ones world view on others is a monster that will never go away. People who are militant atheists would be militant something else if they were not atheists.
(March 13, 2014 at 9:57 pm)heathendegenerate Wrote: You don't blindly believe everything that science says.. because you're a free thinker? Uh, free thinkers follow science.. sorry.
A free thinker questions everything...including science
I totally agree with what you said.
(March 13, 2014 at 10:18 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: The reason to think science is correct is because of the way science works. It doesn't start with an assumption and then try to support that assumption. Instead, it starts with a question and tries to answer that question, with available observable data. Science is also constantly self-correcting as new data becomes available. Simply put, science works. The thing is that you have to be aware of how science works in order to weed out psuedoscience, hoaxes, corruption, etc.
Atheism itself cannot be a religion, because atheism simply describes a lack of belief in God. Something like Secular Humanism, however, might.
Yes I certainly have a lot of respect for most of science, but even in science there is division in agreement and I suppose that is a healthy way to be. Its like the climate change thing going on, there are plenty of science who don't believe what the other side believes, and this can be very confusing to the public.
