Does anyone else think there is a little smugness and hypocrisy in science and scientists when they say the KNOW what happened 4 billion years ago? Couldn't they at least give theists a break as it takes an aweulf lot of faith to believe such almost supernatural claims of a scientists?
2007-04-11 10:09:49 · 17 answers · asked by kent j 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Faith"? "Supernatural claims"?
Isn't it quite a bit more smug to lie like this when you know you're going to get caught?
Next time try being honest.
2007-04-11 10:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most atheists do not proclaim to "know" anything..... they simply refuse to believe (or "know") something to which there is no proof. Any rational person would be as skeptical. In court they say innocent until proven guilty..... with god figures it should be non-existant until proven to be existent. Not the other way around because there is no way to prove something DOES NOT exist. I am an atheist, and i do not claim to "know" anything. I don't KNOW god doesn't exist..... i just do not believe there is a god because there is no evidence to support it. If anything, i've seen more christians claim to have this special knowledge on all of the mysteries of the world. If anyone is smug it's those christians who lay these claims..... and I would say that you seem awfully smug yourself. What belief system do you fall under?
2016-05-17 22:02:09 · answer #2 · answered by liliana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya know what? There are some things that ARE actually factual. There are. Really. Factual, and provable. Verifiable. Repeatedly so. The scientific method is TERRIBLY stringent and cautious. Scientists can ruin their careers by making statements of fact that can disproven down the road by someone else, so this makes them EXTREMELY reluctant to state something as factual until and unless they have done extraordinary amounts of research and expermentation. Eventually however, they often uncover facts. Not concepts, not hypothesis, but provable, verifiable knowledge. When they DO uncover such knowledge, they call it knowledge.
Faith is belief without regard to facts or evidence. That's what faith IS, and that's fine. But it's not their job to make facts more palatable to theists by calling them guesses just because the theists can't understand how those facts can be true. EVERYTHING seems supernatural until you understand it.
2007-04-11 10:20:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Aren't you massively smug to assume, when you obviously don't have a clue about the science behind it, that you know better? It only takes 'faith' to believe the Earth is 4.5 billion years olf if you willfully don't look in to and understand the science behind it. It's rock solid. Are you too scared to look?
2007-04-14 06:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What? I couldn't understand at first. Had to run it through spell-check. Even then it makes no sense.
"Supernatural claims of a scientists?" Unless you're talking about aliens. There is nothing supernatural about science.
EX:
The earth flooding for 40 days: Sounds out there to me.
Dinosaurs: The bones are there. Sounds fine to me.
It's not smug. It's truth.
2007-04-11 10:19:11 · answer #5 · answered by Blanca 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I agree. Our side has smug ones too though :-) I think it is a lot easier for a scientist to come to faith than for a science denier to consider science seriously in light of their established faith. In fact, the latter might even be impossible. Great question!
2007-04-11 10:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I have never heard a respectable scientist making that kind of statement, I've heard them stating different theories and picking one as their favorite.
2007-04-11 10:15:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't we all give each other a break....Scientists know it all and so do Christians....Great now lets get on with it....ya know life.
2007-04-11 10:12:57 · answer #8 · answered by ste.phunny 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes a lot more faith to be an athiestic evolutionist than it does to be Creationist, but people like to be "Unbelieving Thomases" in that they will not believe in Christ (or Creation) without seeing it with their own eyes. They'd rather stick with a religion where they don't have to have the Creator (God) as judge. Since, that would make them accountable for their actions, and like rebelous teenagers, they would rather pretend that the truth not be true and the falsehood they believe in as truth.
-Rose
2007-04-11 10:18:06 · answer #9 · answered by Perilous Rose 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I would like to see you quote a source. I imagine you have just leapt to an enormous conclusion there.
Any smugger than KNOWING a god got a bit of dust and made a person?
2007-04-11 10:14:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋