RE: If faith works how every religion says it works......
August 8, 2010 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2010 at 1:24 pm by The Omnissiunt One.)
RAD Wrote:Has it occurred to you that the "Enlightenment" was led entirely by Bible-savvy Protestant Christians?
Really? What about Hume, Paine, d'Holbach, Spinoza, Jefferson and Smith, to name but a few?
(August 8, 2010 at 1:13 pm)RAD Wrote: I wish somebody would show me the verifiable evidence for 11 dimensions and God knows how many parallel universes.
I believe they probably exist, by faith. I must be stupid.
I now define science as fascinating knowledge that nobody can possibly explain or prove, requiring more and more faith, the more it discovers and tries to explain. The more cosmologists learn, the less they seem to understand. They are starting to make mystics who only believed in two universes look sane and rational.
But at least we know how Jesus could be in two places at once.
There's a reason that mutiple dimensions and parallel universes are not considered scientific fact: there is no evidence for them. They are merely hypotheses which we cannot yet verify or falsify. They are, at least in principle, falsifiable, unlike God. That's why no-one claims to believe in them, though they can be put forward as a possible explanation.
You can define science how you like. Just don't expect anyone to listen to you, though.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln