It seems to inhibit more and more people from understanding the Universe. People are using truthiness more and more. That is when something feels right, no matter what logic or the facts tell us. We basicily believe what we want to because it feels right to us. Science isn't about believing, it's about accepting.
2006-09-09 17:55:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can we strip that away, and get to the heart of what it REALLY means to be a human begin? Not from what religion tells you but from what Science tells you. It is much more powerful and humbling.
2006-09-09 17:58:33 · update #1
Close-mindedness is a virus. Yes, some religious people as well as non-religious people are close-minded.
"We basicily believe what we want to because it feels right to us."
Wow. Didn't see that coming now, did you? Don't you hate it when you try to use something against someone else but actually justify the other act?
As for the comment about Flint, for me being a resident of a Flint suburb and attending school in the city, I can say that any of the churches that may have sprung up after the factory closings are now out-of-buisness or burned down.
2006-09-09 18:01:43 · answer #1 · answered by Mandi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people are simply not as evolved as others...they do not have the ability nor the desire to seek out the answers for themselves, instead they take the easy way out and let a book dictate "truth" to them. The lesser evolved among the human race also are incapable of intellectual honesty...meaning they always believe that every question has an answer, they cannot admit that maybe there are NO answers at all...ever. That is why some will accept that God is a jealous and angry murderer of children and will defend the bible god's right to kill children...then turn right around and say god is all loving and would never harm an innocent child.
Hypocrisy is a standard trait amonst religionists.
2006-09-09 18:12:11 · answer #2 · answered by stephenjames001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
religion is perfectly reasonable, I suppose. When I say that, I am not including Christianity, because it is a system of belief, (just as atheism is), but it is not a religion.
What is your definition of religion? It seems to me that those who embrace the religion of atheistic naturalism (which I'm guessing includes you), have the greatest difficulty understanding the universe.
You also seem to be confused about what science is and what it isn't. There is no scientist on the earth that doesn't have any biases, and who is completely objective, no matter what anyone may say.
Every scientist has a belief system. It may be a belief system that says we all popped out of thin air by ourselves (the Darwinian evolutionary view, which goes against all known science and every field of science) . .
or it may be a belief system (such as the one Isaac Newton had) that says God created everything, and we are only thinking His thoughts after Him.
A human begin?. . do you mean a human being?
How is science humbling?. . science can only show us what God has done, and THAT is truly humbling, when we see, in comparison, how small and powerless we are compared to the almighty Creator and Master of the Universe.
2006-09-09 18:21:33 · answer #3 · answered by Wayne A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Come on! Christians (properly a minimum of me and my kin) have faith that the bible is advised in a manner that folk back then can comprehend it. God bounce began evolution, the international, and all that crap. God nevertheless created guy and the international, yet by some thing that we are in a position to comprehend. we've discovered some evidence that a great flood has taken place interior the middle East... so think of roughly that. we are looking maximum of issues which could teach Christianity precise and in line with danger even another religions. it rather is not a suggestions virus and that i've got taken (and nevertheless am) CCD (I forgot the actual call now) and we found out that the hot testomony replaced into written with the help of the people who observed Jesus and had to jot down each little thing down, and subsequently the hot testomony comes forth. faith is consistent with what we have faith, and that's in God. no longer purely what THEY believed, yet us.
2016-11-07 00:35:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - it is the side effect of social disease though.
Studies show that poverty and loss of pride results in communities becoming more religious. When ignorant people have a reason to become fearful, they turn to religion every time.
(I'm NOT saying that all religious people are ignorant... so don't go there.)
Just look at the South after the civil rights movement.
Or Flint, Michigan after the GM factories closed down...
Churches were on every corner like Starbucks...
Funny side note - there is a Starbucks *inside* a mega-church in washington now...
2006-09-09 17:59:30 · answer #5 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was one thing I learnt in Maths that I was told.
When a mathematical equation is found it will never be proved wrong, but whenever something scientifical is found is can be proved wrong.
Nobody knows what religion is truly correct and people seem to take the Bible literally, if you take it metaphorically it does suggest things science comes up with. Dinosaurs are mentioned in the bible even though the word dinosaur is mentioned they use Serpent and I think it was Dragon to say dinosaur.
2006-09-09 18:00:44 · answer #6 · answered by kaeleymel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a mind virus..lol.. good one.
actually... thats not a bad question... people should think more along the lines of elolution than than the bibe. you can believe in what you want but the logical reason is right infront of your face and yet people just let them selves be brainwashed by something that either might have happend or is all just a myth.
i believe in god because if theres a devil and evil there has to be a god and kindness. they balance eachother out in some way. i believe in god.. but not the bible part. but i also believe in the science of evolution.
hope i didnt confuse you by my train of thoughts i often confuse myself
2006-09-09 18:02:21 · answer #7 · answered by Scarlet5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You truly are the reason god didn't want us to eat from the tree of knowledge it pollutes your mind with facts the facts and if you really do know what your talking about is there is know way life just erupts there has to be a catalyst somewhere but as you know if your that smart there is know such thing it had to be by design there is no argument that is unless you really don't know what your talking about.
2006-09-09 18:08:01 · answer #8 · answered by Jimmy B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No religion isnt a mind virus, it is a real deal thing, its a part of a human's soul and its something no one can never get rid of.
2006-09-09 18:11:02 · answer #9 · answered by mamas_grandmasboy06 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, religious is a mental virus, aka meme (a word Ricjard Dawkins coined).
2006-09-09 18:01:33 · answer #10 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋