(January 11, 2015 at 8:12 pm)Hammod1612 Wrote: A quick question to all of the people holding the facts out there:
I'm personally an Atheist, and was recently in a discussion with my Christian friend about God, evolution and so forth.
A thing that bugged me a bit was one of her "facts," which i could not really comment upon since i didn't have the knowledge about it.
Her argument was, that religion had lasted for thousands of years, and apparently (according to her "facts"), scientific theories have an average "lifespan" of about 30 years. Now i know for a fact that it's because science constantly discovers new things to replace the old theories, which i told her, but is this actually a fact, that theories have an average lifespan of 30 years?
No idea. But if they do, it is a very good thing. The shorter the time a scientific theory last, the faster we are accumulating new knowledge and understanding more about the world around us.
Tell your friend that a belief lasting thousands of years doesn't make that belief correct, it is simply the calcification of wrongness.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
