How was the universe created? How did life start from inorganic matter? I don't know but people much smarter than you or me are working on trying to figure it out right now. And that is contributing MUCH more to society than some one who simply say "My deity did it and that's final." That kind of mentality keeps society from progressing intellectually. That's just how it is because an old book by some old men says so does nothing to gain knowledge. To be afraid of learning more is to be willfully ignorant. To call science your enemy is to directly call knowledge your enemy and to directly admit the desire to remain ignorant because ignorance is bliss.
Having an answer doesn't make your answer valid. By comparison my "I don't know" is actually much more intelligent than some one's giant assumption based on the fact that they don't want to admit that they don't know either.
Why do some people hate/fear others for trying to find answers? They just want answers, not to hurt you.
2006-09-07 13:02:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You should listen to or read the lyrics to the Bad Religion song "The Answer". It is a great song that is not antireligion and is not hardcore or anything, nice and slow with many valid points. It is more anti-ignorance.
2006-09-07 13:05:12 · update #1
To creatrix, haha, I guess I deserved that answer. Don't worry I have a sense of humor unlike some people who report people everytime they don't like the context the name Jesus is used in.
2006-09-07 13:06:33 · update #2
I don't know, either. Except I do in this case. Saying I don't know is a form of weakness, which frightens people. You and I might regard it as the first step to real knowledge, but others do not.
Also, "revealed knowledge," i.e. religion, is something they fall back on when their own intelligence can't carry them any further.
When I look at the pathetically tiny amount of things I have learned in life and compare it to the wealth of knowledge we have amassed as a race, I feel small. But that's fine. It's the nature of being human. I'm ok with it.
Many people are not.
2006-09-07 13:13:18 · answer #1 · answered by KALEL 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People just want the points.
I don't answer questions that I don't know very much about as I believe that many questions are genuine and deserve a decent, informed reply.
Some are obviously fun and deserve a reply for making this site fun, too.
By the way, when I don't know, I just don't submit an answer, like many members do.
2006-09-07 20:12:54 · answer #2 · answered by 675 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know either, but I sure can imagine! I imagine God gave me a brain to try to figure things out for myself, rather than relying on others to think for me. Just like I imagine he created us originally to evolve into what we are today.
Not being born or created smart, I do think I evolved to where I am since birth.
Now my answer may not be THE one answer either, but it sits better with me than what was taught to me by a bunch of people that still thought earth was flat, among other things, and wrote that book.
...jj.
2006-09-07 20:17:33 · answer #3 · answered by johnny j 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but people are afraid of the unknown -- that's precisely why religion was invented in the first place.
I agree that it's a great pity that anyone should be so fearful. We belong to the cosmos and it belongs to us. There should be no such thing as fear.
2006-09-07 20:08:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess the problem is that some of those answers are a direct threat to some religious person's beliefs. So he/she must attack it to the last breath. To admit that they "don't know" is to admit that they don't know their God, or even worse, that their God doesn't have answers to give them. I think it's their insecurity in their faith that is the problem.
2006-09-07 20:12:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it's an ego thing. Many people do want you to think they know everything, but they don't. Only the man above knows every thing there is to know.
2006-09-07 20:07:53 · answer #6 · answered by dkelli 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Northern Sun sells a terrific bumper sticker that says "Militant Agnostic: I don't know and you don't either."
I take everyone's assumption as an educated guess, including my own.
2006-09-07 20:07:52 · answer #7 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it makes them look uneducated or stupid. Most people would rather try to answer a question they have not a clue about than to outright say "I don't know"!
2006-09-07 20:09:16 · answer #8 · answered by peg 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, we come up with some unresolved problem and then we proceed to theorize about it. Then we try to prove ourselves correct.
2006-09-07 20:15:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because everyone has a belief that they hold onto, and thats usually what they spout to you.
2006-09-07 20:08:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋