Why do Athiests(no offence).........?

Question

(like i said no offence to any of them what so ever)
Why do athiests believe in science and some sort of proof? I mean why do they beleive in something that could change over night with an experiment or something that could change just because of the added technology? Why do they believe something with virtualy no stability(something like us saying today that milk is healthy but tomrrow we could say that everything we eat can give us cancer in an instant), instead of beleiving something that doesnt really change but stays constant(of corse i mean religion)

Answer 1

Because I have an ability to think for myself and change my mind if warranted and new evidence is provided. Many religious people lack these abilities.
If evolution and the big bang is proven, will you reject your religion? Because if you can scientifically prove that God exists and created this universe, then I am willing to change my mind.
By the way I also believe in spelling and grammar such as atheists, offense, believe, overnight, tomorrow, and course). No offense.

Answer 2

Well I think alot of Religious people and Atheist alike believe in Science and Evidence though how important it is might vary and change from person to person. It is the foundation of everything we have achieved so far and stability is comforting whether that stability comes from Religion or Scientific Evidence. Just because Religion hardly changes does not make it more stable nor accurate then Science. I mean...look at all the Different Sects and Interpretations one can have of the Bible...

The beauty of Science is the fact that there is room for error and mistakes that in which we can learn from....
Change can be a Good thing...

There is also no correlation between a persons faith or lack of faith and science...That is general misconception as there are many Religious Practitioners of Science and Medicine. That is a General Misconception created by Outspoken Groups from Both Parties...

Answer 3

If you think religion remains constant you need to read a lot more books on the history of religion - try "The Golden Bough" for one. You might be amazed at how much religion has changed over the years - it does NOT stay the same.

As for science, that is a process. When something new is discovered it can change the old way of thinking. Remember when they said that asbestos was perfectly safe? When it is found out that what used to be true isn't science will "change its tune", but this is not a bad thing - this is the way it is meant to work, because over time our level of knowledge improves and does not stay stagnant.

Btw: I'm not an atheist, and the fact that you are using a computer means that you believe in what scientists can do - religion didn't create the Internet.

Answer 4

Science marches onward. That's a good thing. Scientific principles are forever subject to scrutiny and are refined as new knowledge becomes available.

Religious "truth" on the other hand is not subject to scrutiny or advances in knowledge. Religious "truth" is whatever religious leaders say it is. Any you're very mistaken if you think that religious thought is a constant.

Religion is anything but constant. Modern Christians wouldn't recognize Christianity as it was practiced in American colonial days. And colonials wouldn't recognize Christianity of previous centuries. The Catholic church persecuted Galileo for not believing the earth is the center of the solar system. When I was a child attending Catholic church school we were taught that only Catholic souls can go to heaven. Just weeks ago the Catholic pope abolished the doctrine of Limbo which was taught as "truth" to Catholics for centuries. Religious denominations and sects spring up continually while others become extinct. Few things are less constant than religion.

Answer 5

I understand what you're saying, but you should understand that it is not something that instantaneously changes. Science might need to rewrite itself if sufficient evidence arises, but the truth is what we really seek. I believe it's better than accepting one truth, which is religion's truth-that god is responsible for everything. We simply cannot accept that a deity is responsible for everything that has been, is, and will be. It is literally a leap of faith (and too great of one), which doesn't make sense to atheists, since there is no proof. We need something testable, something that makes sense, uses logic and reason.Though a good question for strictly religious folks, is why do they use the technology folks develop as a result of science?

Answer 6

Before you ask these questions, you MUST understand that atheists have no central doctrine so we all have different reasons, therefore I only speak for myself on this. I believe in absolute truth but I don't think humans have found it yet. Science does not change, man's understanding of sciences changes. Case in point: Isaac Newton developed his branch of physics. Later Einstein developed General and Special Relativity which showed not that Newtonian physics were false, but that they applied only to CERTAIN situations. Shortly after quantum mechanics developed because scientists realized there were situations in which the Relativities and Newtonian physics could not explain. As you can see, we have more to a more complete understanding of physics, but it is wrong to say that physics itself has changed.

Answer 7

We DON'T believe in science blindly. We believe in what has evidence. New things are discovered all the time. Scientists embrace this, because it is new knowledge and they are all about the truth and knowledge. Finding out that a theory is wrong by learning something new is not a taboo. Science is a state of flux, but there's nothing wrong with that. I will take that over a stable fiction any day.

atheist

Answer 8

It's easier to believe something if you can observe it. Since God cannot be observed, atheists deny God. Atheists deny religions because so many religions are either superstitious, scientifically proven wrong, or doesn't make sense logically. But, looking in science for proof isn't a bad thing; there's nothing wrong with that.

Answer 9

the beauty of science and the scientific community is that it lives and breathes. people do research, they find something worthwhile, and publish their results. someone else can use these results to prove something else. someone else can come along and prove the original research wrong, revise it. then people look at the consequences of the original research being wrong and revise the subsequent research. it is not faith. it is in a constant state of improvement and revision. theories are theories and that's it. they can be proven wrong, but even an not completely correct theory can provide tremendous insight to a topic. take for example Newton's law of mechanics. which was not entirely correct, because relativity was not understood then. nevertheless, it suffices for a large part of science today.

Answer 10

Let me ask you this.... do you believe in the easter bunny? How about Santa Clause? So are you going to be dumb enough to believe in them just because some book, and some old stories, say they're real? Of course not. Same thing with god.

I trust science because I have experience with science. I understand science. I have PROOF in science.

I don't believe in fairy tales, unlike you. You may be content with believing that fairies are going to steal your children in the night and replace them with changlings, but I am not.

You know... a brain is a terrible thing to waste.