RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 26, 2014 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2014 at 2:39 pm by Harris.)
(July 26, 2014 at 12:07 pm)Tobie Wrote:Quote:I say God exist, it shows that I BELIEVE in the existence of God. You say God does not exist and this statement shows you BELIEVE in the non-existence of God. Religion is based on the BELIEF in God and Atheism is based on the BELIEF that there is no God. Both atheism and religion have their own BELIEF systems. You think I am detrimental but have you ever looked inside your own shirt or you are only used to criticise others. Can science prove there is no God and universe came out from nothingness? Or perhaps, science can prove that life appeared on earth in result of a random, unguided, mindless, and blind process which is heavily dependent over luck and chance.
ABSURD.
This has been said countless times before on this forum, but Atheism is not the belief that there is no god, it is the lack of belief in a god. There are some atheists who, on top of not believing in a god, claim no gods exist, but the majority (at least here) do not claim that.
Also, science does not claim everything came from nothing - the Big Bang theory in it's current form says the universe started as a singularity, which is absolutely the opposite of nothing, because it is everything, but condensed infinitesimally.
Maybe this has been said countless times before. However, the thing which no one has thought about is that the new Atheist has redefined the faith. They say faith is purely religious concept that is to believe in something without any evidence for the existence of that thing. However, new atheists are completely blinded to the fact that their whole worldview is in fact a faith and indeed not only that but perhaps even more importantly that science depends on faith. Every scientist believe that the entire universe is intelligible that is we can in part understand it by using our minds that we have to believe before we do science.
Physics is powerless to establish its faith in the reliability of human mind simply because you have to have that faith that the universe is intelligible before you could do any physics at all. So here is the very odd thing the new atheist are railing against faith when they needed to believe their own worldview as well as to do science.