Why is religion a facter in so much?

Question

I have no idea why in 2007 that religion is still an issue. It's been proven wrong for centuries. I mean seriously, all the religions of the world are about as believable as flying purple elephants. Evolution has been proven. Frankly, billions of people walking around the world thinking that allah or jesus should be worshiped makes me shake my head. Why not worship polkadots? They have had a long history, same with paper. I have to questions anybody who doesnt think that dinosaurs or scientific evidence doesnt exist. When will be finally be done with warmongering religion. The sooner or better I hope, then we could all live in peace.

Answer 1

It is not. Thank God. Religion is phasing out, so that we can truly be a free society.

Answer 2

From what I am reading, you are making a statement based on scientific fact AND your opinion and not really asking any question at all....you seem to have already decided what the answer is.

Kudos...however, one can get into alot of trouble discussing religion and politics but I think it is a versitile subject that can be looked at in different aspects .

Religion has been around since the dawn of time and will never go away. According to Webster, religion is

1: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
2: of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances
3 a: scrupulously and conscientiously faithful

Evolution states we evolved from apes and has nothing to do with religion what-so-ever. Websters definition of evolution:

(a) process of change in a certain direction : unfolding (b): a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state : growth

Religion is a belief that things will get better some how some way....through prayer, eating accordingly, etc. whereas evolution only states how we got here and doesn't necessarily tell us where we will wind up let alone where we are going. Only that we change from lower to higher and more complex.

People have proven from their faith in their own religion of being healed of many ailments and diseases...of being born again, of enlightenment through hardships, etc. Evolution cannot prove that let alone boast.

Religion helps many cope with the day to day struggles in life giving them something to hope for and look forward to......almost as much as getting your income tax return something you can hope for and look forward to.

I agree that if we as a nation can grasp a hold of just one religion or in your words-none....then we will be far better off, however someone will always try to proove they are far superior (can you top this attitude) so there will always be wars backed by religions of many types.

This holy war has been going since Adam and Eve....so strap on your seat belt because it isn't going away and from what I can see, it will be a bumpy ride, depending on what side you are sitting on.

Before the dark ages the catholic church truely ruled the kingdoms. Kings and Queens alike didn't make decisions without consulting the priests....religion has a strong political background in our history and still does today.

I am a born again Christian but I do believe in evolution and dinasaurs (I have dinasaur bones I have collected over the years). How we got here isn't important to me....what I was before I was human isn't important, what is immportant to me is how I am going to survive, and where I am going when I die.

Answer 3

Evolution is a religion which has not been proven. It is a faith-based system. Though you do not worship a diety, per se, you exalt human autonomy. There are many false religions, but there is only one truth, and that you already know, that God exists.

Answer 4

You said "Evolution has been proven. "

When? Where? It has never been proven or demonstrated. It is conjecture at it's best. There is no proof that one animal becomes another animal over time.

Adaptation / Micro evolution is generally considered true by everyone. It is the Macro Evolution, that one species becomes another that is baloney.

Answer 5

hey there i am a wiccan and believe in Evolution firmly but i also believe in the mother and father there is nuthing wrong with religion. why do u have such a problem with religion?

Answer 6

pssst.
hey
you got anything? anything that'll make me see those flyin purple elephants with the polkadots?

Answer 7

I feel sorry for you. You down what you don't understand.

Answer 8

Are you a ghost?

Answer 9

--Evolution is being nailed into its coffin! Don't you read anything as of late, THIS IS WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE REAL WORLD:

*** ce chap. 15 p. 179 par. 2 Why Do Many Accept Evolution? ***

2 In the magazine American Laboratory a biochemist wrote this about his children’s schooling: “The child is not presented with evolution as a theory. Subtle statements are made in science texts as early as the second grade (based on my reading of my children’s textbooks). Evolution is presented as reality, not as a concept that can be questioned. The authority of the educational system then compels belief.” Regarding evolutionary teaching in higher grades, he said: “A student is not permitted to hold personal beliefs or to state them: if the student does so, he or she is subjected to ridicule and criticism by the instructor. Often the student risks academic loss because his or her views are not ‘correct’ and the grade is lowered.”1

--Sounds like the Inquisition!

--EXAMPLE OF TRUE INTIMIDATION:
An example typical of views that often intimidate laymen is this assertion by Richard Dawkins: “Darwin’s theory is now supported by all the available relevant evidence, and its truth is not doubted by any serious modern biologist."

REBUTTAL:Thus, sweeping statements like that of Dawkins are in error. But they are typical of attempts to bury opposition by means of such language. Noting this, an observer wrote in New Scientist: “Does Richard Dawkins have so little faith in the evidence for evolution that he has to make sweeping generalisations in order to dismiss opponents to his beliefs?”4

--Do you know what "sweeping generalizations" of evolution do with factual sciences? They sweep proven sciences out the door! MORE.........

--In a foreword to John Reader’s book Missing Links, David Pilbeam shows that scientists do not always base their conclusions on facts. One reason, says Pilbeam, is that scientists “are also people and because much is at stake, for there are glittering prizes in the form of fame and publicity.” The book acknowledges that evolution is “a science powered by individual ambitions and so susceptible to preconceived beliefs.” As an example it notes: “When preconception is . . . so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.” The author adds: “Modern [evolutionists] are no less likely to cling to erroneous data that supports their preconceptions than were earlier investigators . . . [who] dismissed objective assessment in favour of the notions they wanted to believe.”

--This unscientific attitude was noted and deplored by W. R. Thompson in his foreword to the centennial edition of Darwin’s The Origin of Species. Thompson stated: “If arguments fail to resist analysis, assent should be withheld, and a wholesale conversion due to unsound argument must be regarded as deplorable.” He said: “The facts and interpretations on which Darwin relied have now ceased to convince. The long-continued investigations on heredity and variation have undermined the Darwinian position.”8

--Similarly, a professor of anthropology, Anthony Ostric, criticized his scientific colleagues for declaring “as a fact” that man descended from apelike creatures. He said that “at best it is only a hypothesis and not a well-supported one at that.” He noted that “there is no evidence that man has not remained essentially the same since the first evidence of his appearance.” The anthropologist said that the vast body of professionals have fallen in behind those who promote evolution “for fear of not being declared serious scholars or of being rejected from serious academic circles.”10 In this regard, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe also comment: “You either believe the concepts or you will inevitably be branded as a heretic.”11 One result of this has been an unwillingness by many scientists to investigate the creation viewpoint without prejudice. As a letter to the editor of Hospital Practice observed: “Science has always prided itself upon its objectivity, but I’m afraid that we scientists are rapidly becoming victims of the prejudiced, closed-minded thinking that we have so long abhorred.”12

--And as to the millions of linked fossils that are supposed to exist in the thousands of museums, etc. NOTE TO HOW MANY PITIFUL EXAMPLES EXIST:

Just how sparse is the fossil record regarding “ape-men”? Note the following. Newsweek: “‘You could put all the fossils on the top of a single desk,’ said Elwyn Simons of Duke University.”10 The New York Times: “The known fossil remains of man’s ancestors would fit on a billiard table. That makes a poor platform from which to peer into the mists of the last few million years.”11 Science Digest: “The remarkable fact is that all the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a SINGLE COFFIN(my caps) . . . Modern apes, for instance, seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record. And the true origin of modern humans—of upright, naked, toolmaking, big-brained beings—is, if we are to be honest with ourselves, an equally mysterious matter.”12

--AS TO HOW LONG "HUMAN" MAN --you know us!-----has been on earth, PLEASE NOTE AN EYE OPENER:

*** ce chap. 7 p. 98 par. 41 “Ape-Men”—What Were They? ***

41 In this regard, note what Nobel prize winning nuclear physicist W. F. Libby, one of the pioneers in radiocarbon dating, stated in Science: “The research in the development of the dating technique consisted of two stages—dating of samples from the historical and the prehistorical epochs, respectively. Arnold [a co-worker] and I had OUR FIRST SHOCK(my caps) when our advisers informed us that history extended back only for 5000 years. . . . You read statements to the effect that such and such a society or archeological site is 20,000 years old. We learned rather abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known accurately.”57

--THE BIBLICAL RECORD accuratly traces man's history of Adam, to have been created c.4026 B.C.E.--OF COURSE that does not include the 7 days of 10's of thousands of years and the earths probable age of 4-5 billion years!

--Fraudulent science( evolution theory, that stays as a theory for c.100 years)---IS AS BAD as fraudulent religion with its hellfire, trinity, immortality of soul, purgatory and other bizaar teachings!