I mean, how many of you guys are rocket scientists or molecular biologists anyway? Whether or not you accept evolution as fact wouldn’t really impact on your lives would it?
2007-07-27 15:39:20 · 33 answers · asked by Desiree 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm a rocket scientist. And accepting the overwhelming evidence for evolution doesn't make one an atheist, it just makes you a rational person.
2007-07-27 15:43:06 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 12⤊ 3⤋
Personally, life got more peaceful after I rejected Christianity. Organized religion was a burden and a church was a bore. I'm a happy-go-lucky Pagan now and it's liberating.
Rejecting evolution would make me feel uncomfortable. Creationism seems too trite, to simple. The Creation is just a story, it's not meant to be taken literally (I was taught that in Catholic school). I don't see why evolution and creationism always have to be mutually exclusive. Can't one "day" be a few million years?
2007-07-27 16:55:42 · answer #2 · answered by ravinraven718 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our lives are perfectly peaceful without accepting a book we believe is false and based on lies. Why can't Christians realize that we neither care about nor believe in the Bible? FYI evolution is not the only problem we have with the Bible.
2007-07-27 16:57:11 · answer #3 · answered by Dawn 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're saying that the bible = peace? Honey, have you ever READ it? What you said is equal to asking why the Christians can't see that their lives would be so much more peaceful if they just accepted the Koran, or any other religious text. The atheists, and everybody else in the world, would have much more peaceful lives if everybody stopped claiming that their religion was the ONLY, TRUE way.
2007-07-27 15:44:20 · answer #4 · answered by Molten Orange 5 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Uh, you don't seem to have a clear concept of believe or truth.
I don't believe based on ideas that are completely irrelevant to the truth of something.
Even if you were right (which you aren't, as my life is perfectly peaceful, thanks for asking), truth is truth.
There's no reason to believe in the Bible, in fact, there's much reason to reject much of what it says.
It's crammed with absurdity.
Thus, you're telling me I should believe things that are absurd, ridiculous, and that I have no inclination to believe.
If I told you that believing in the Great Purple Unicorn would bring you more happiness than you've ever known, could you simply believe it?
Even if it seemed completely false to you?
How do you expect me to believe false things?
Could you believe that your foot is actually a sausage?
I would imagine not.
Although I'm not a scientist, I'm capable of understanding much of what scientists said.
Giving up science would be a HUGE loss to me.
I find science an endless source of fascination and a kind of joy; mindless acceptance of absurdity just can't compete.
Understanding science adds to my life in many ways: by understanding things accurately, I can apply my understanding to, for instance, understanding what sort of critters we (humans) are, and why.
This is not only interesting in its own right, but of tremendous practical value.
My understanding of psychology, zoology, evolution, history, philosophy, and sociology all combine to give me a richness of understanding, an ability to see things in lots of different ways, analyze things, and synthesize new understandings out of that process.
As I say, it's not only mega-fun, but invaluable on a practical level.
And you're saying I should abandon much of what I know in order to believe a bunch of scary, sick, nonsense.
I don't need a more peaceful life than the one I have, but even if I did, it's not worth the price.
I just value evidence, reason, reality, and truth too highly to abandon them.
Why is that such a hard thing to understand?
2007-07-27 16:42:18 · answer #5 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are correct with the part about not affecting me and i am not any of those scientists you mentioned above,but my life is peaceful now and for you to suggest that I need the Bible is just plain wrong. Its not only the religion that bothers me. Its also "some" of the religious folk that spend so much time reminding people of their faults, they have no time to look at their own.
2007-07-27 15:56:07 · answer #6 · answered by jason h 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
"Whether or not you accept evolution as fact wouldn’t really impact on your lives would it?"
Right back atcha. If evolution's not a big deal, why make it one?
I believe in evolution, but I also believe in God. I believe the Bible to be a guide, but not word for word truth. Belief in a higher being and belief in evolution are not mutually exclusive.
2007-07-27 15:49:41 · answer #7 · answered by Eleryth 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How would living a lie make me more happy and peaceful? I can't accept the Bible because I don't agree with the Bible. Also, you do realize that many atheist used to be believers, don't you? I was a fundie Christian at one point in my life.
2007-07-27 15:48:44 · answer #8 · answered by atheist 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
My life is quite peaceful and comfortable. I live simply. I love and am loved. I'm happy.
Evolution really has only a small part in it. I'm sure most atheists have a variety of other reasons as well.
2007-07-27 15:52:52 · answer #9 · answered by moondriven 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Because when you revel in religion and your God, the only result is that of ignorance, hypocrisy, and people like you who generally sweep the entire atheist population into that of an angry one. I for one, am incredibly happy living a godless life.
2007-07-27 16:44:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋