(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?
It depends on the idea. It depends on what she's calling a theory. It depends on how she defines "lifespan". And it depends who is selecting which theories. She should also take a look at the knowledge passed down by primitive societies which still live today as they have for thousands of years. Much of their knowledge, while not "scientific" in the Western sense of the word, predates the Bible by a long shot, and is much more accurate.
Personally, I trust science more precisely because it is self-correcting, in the same way that I trust someone more when they're willing to admit error. I mean, do you really listen to that asshole who can't admit error even when countervailing evidence is staring him in the face? Why then should we pay attention to faith, which has only taught man more reasons to hate one another?
