RE: Evidence for atheist claims
May 6, 2016 at 3:03 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2016 at 3:03 am by Fake Messiah.)
(May 5, 2016 at 11:35 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(May 5, 2016 at 11:25 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: And the corollary, as has been pointed out by many others, is that they CAN all be wrong.
Well from what I gather OP is not so much interested in process how Earth started but rather why cling to any explanation. Why choose scientific explanation rather then some religious and that is again question that could be rephrased as "What is reality?" which is again the question that has been the core of the something like every other topic started by religious people on the forum.
And like I said before to those people, read "Magic of reality" by R. Dawkins.
Maybe I should have said that evolution and natural selection helps people see the world more clearly and by being cornerstone of biology and medicine it actually heals people.
And theories about how Solar system got formed got us stuff like nuclear energy which in turn powers our computers as we write this. As well as laws of gravity, that also help us understand how Solar system got formed, enable us to have space program which equals to communication satellites...
Compared to religion that yields nothing. Not only that religion can't heal you, can't make you communicate better to other people and have better life overall it goes the opposite way. As members of this forum could witness is that religious people frequently prevent their kids for getting medication, because these medications come from understanding the world that functions without any god. That's clearly because religion is not funded in reality unlike science.
But this is the thing that I think religious people think that evolution was "created" to be a counterpart to religious myths, while the truth is that evolution inadvertently debunked almost all religions. As is the case with archaeology, meteorology, geology, history...
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"