RE: A Former Atheist
May 3, 2015 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2015 at 12:54 pm by Theoretical Skeptic.)
(May 3, 2015 at 12:10 pm)robvalue Wrote: The question then would be:
Why do you put more weight in one book than in all the scientific knowledge accumulated by the brightest minds in the last 2000 years?
Let me see. How to answer that. First of all, the origins of science and education didn't get their start in the secular world, but rather in the religious. Secondly, I can name respected scientists in many fields who not only not believe in evolution, but also teach the Bible in their spare time. So there may be some disagreement with current science and the Bible regarding the flood and evolution but there isn't as much disagreement as you might suspect. Remember, science can't test the supernatural so they have no authority to state a position on it, really.
Growing up in public schools in the 1970's and 1980's as an unbeliever my science teachers were atheist and most of what they told me, now obsolete science peppered with what I now know was Biblical ignorance was touted as unchangeable fact. Knowledge grows, evolves, changes. Facts don't. Tomorrow's science will no doubt negate the science of today.
Hundreds of years ago the current science thought that night and day were caused by vapors, from the sky in the day and from the ground at night while the Bible had said thousands of years ago that night and day were due to the luminaries. The hydrologic cycle from the Bible and hygienic laws from the Bible predated science, the latter during Moses' time were only realized in the last 150 years. Until then a physician would go from the morgue to the birthing table without so much as washing their hands. The spherical shape of the earth was explained by the Bible hundreds of years before science concluded it.
My family and friends are mostly atheists, and like myself at the time, they don't believe everything science dictates to them. None of them that I know believe in evolution. We thought of it as bullshit, like the American public school's teaching of myth and legends, propaganda and outright lies in the guise of historical fact.
