Do you get annoyed or frustrated when a theist on R&S asks a deeply complex science question that the greatest minds in the world haven't answered yet (ie: how did atoms come to exist?) and then expects a bunch of people on a message board with hardly any science background to answer it? And then they often belittle us when we're incapable of it?
To me, its like asking them to explain every part of their religion, even the parts that religious scholars don't fully understand yet?
2007-08-06 04:40:22 · 32 answers · asked by Devolution 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I love "what caused the big bang". That's my favorite. I always say "I don't know", then they say "well it must have been god then."
Do they not realize that space and time (as we know them) did not exist before the big bang started?
2007-08-06 04:48:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't get annoyed I just move on to the the next question.
I have never seen a theist or anyone here at yahoo answers ask "a deeply complex science question that the greatest minds in the world haven't answered yet..". I have met theists who think they are smarter than they really are.( and non theists who do the same)
Most (read ALL) of the atheist baiting questions are much much simpler and have no science in them at all.
there are many immature questions and answers here.
It is harder to think up a deeply complex science Q?? and in the Relig and spirit area there are NO DEEP Science Qs?
I agree with your comment about this being a message board. You get a pot luck of answers. Some fit some do not.
2007-08-06 05:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am guilty as charged, but some of these questions have come up with answers, that at least can be used as a starting point to learn the answers science is offering so far.
The great thing about science is it critiques and expands itself, that is why it is so effective and accurate. When people start believing they have all the answers and there is no need to question, then even Science could hit a dead end with that attitude.
Sometimes though, when I ask deeply complex questions here I will get one or two thought out answers, that actually give me further incite.
2007-08-06 06:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by Link , Padawan of Yoda 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, I don't mind educating them on where science stands on things. I do have a science background (chemistry) and it is my primary area of interest so I usually know at least the basics.
But they need to understand that not knowing doesn't constitute evidence that there is a god. Evidence for something is only evidence for that thing. It isn't evidence that something else might be wrong.
Now the willful ignorance expressed in some of the evolution questions is annoying. There is no way these people got past 5th grade without having a better overview of Biology than they show. Especially all the frickin' "monkey" questions.
2007-08-06 04:50:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Very much so, especially since I've found that a generic answer to a lot of religious questions is that "We're not supposed to understand that." At least we continue to search for scientific explanations for things, rather than just accepting it as true. I agree, until every aspect of religion can be explained, atheists can't be expected to be all-knowing science geniuses.
2007-08-06 05:20:03 · answer #5 · answered by LifeIsAFreeTripRoundTheSun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, guys!
I wish I had the certainty that you do! It would make life so much easier! Most days I do, and then others? What the hell is going on in the world! Where is god? Makes you wonder!
And I love science, too! Big Bang theory? Works for me! And the world is Not 5 or 6 thousand years old!
I like a lot of what you say!
2007-08-06 05:02:35 · answer #6 · answered by jaded 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really... It's so funny, actually. I think they ask these kind of quiestions because we ask thing like "How do you prove God exists?" and they think is the same. The answer that I give is that atoms can be seen (with very powerful machines, of course) but God cannot, and it's impossible to prove that he exists in a scientific way. Some day we'll find out how atoms came to exist but I don't think someone will prove that God exists
2007-08-06 05:21:05 · answer #7 · answered by armando986 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It used to, but I'm used to it now. I realize that ignorance of a subject is not validation that any brand of god exists. All it means is that we're still learning about our existence. It also shows how ignorant the asker is, since they assume that atheists believe that science is somehow supposed to have all the answers. Nothing has all the answers, and believing that anything does is simply playing mind-games with yourself.
2007-08-06 04:52:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm more amused by them thinking that they have an answer in, "A supernatural being magicked it into existence, *poof*!"
Ah, yeah. Sure. That explains it. And let me guess, the supernatural being doesn't need to be magicked into existence, right? Because... it always existed? But we can't accept that matter always existed why?
(I'm not saying matter always existed, just amazed that they can rule that out in an attempt to justify the existence of a creator, but not rule it out for her.)
2007-08-06 04:47:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think that's bad? Check out Way of the Master! Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort display their superior knowledge of the evolutionary theory (LOL) by going around and talking to random people on the streets about transitional species (like that wacky crockoduck!)...
The funniest example of you don't know- better find jesus.
2007-08-06 04:45:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually I love ready our "Scientific" answers.
It is an excellent opportunity to deploy the B.S. bombs.
Some of the stuff people drag in from real science is as good as anything the rest of us make up on the fly.
2007-08-06 04:51:46 · answer #11 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋