...so why aren't there more atheists in the world. If everything can be explained by science for a long time now, wouldn't religion die with each discovery made? Wouldn't the institution of the church die with each discovery too? Why hasn't atheism given people the answers that they are searching for.
2007-11-17 11:07:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-11-17 11:07:46 · update #1
Faith and spirituality will always be ahead of science. ALWAYS!!!
2007-11-17 11:19:13 · update #2
Alfalfa,
So atheism is not beneficial to those who are poor and uneducated? Faith is beneficial to everyone the poor, the rich, the educated, and uneducated.
2007-11-17 11:23:53 · update #3
Also you are assuming that people in Turkey are dumb. Even in remote parts of the world a person can understand concepts if explained to them. They may even accept them. That doesn't matter, they will still hold on to their faith.
2007-11-17 11:25:53 · update #4
Planet 10? WTF?
2007-11-17 11:26:55 · update #5
Because religion isn't just about explaining natural phenomena. Your question appears to presume that religion is the result of ignorance, as a crutch people use to explain what they don't understand. Very intelligent and scientifically minded people are still religious. Just because they can explain the phsyical world doesn't mean that is all there is in the universe. Religion acknowledges something in existence beyond what we can physically measure.
2007-11-17 11:11:10 · answer #1 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Over 2/3 of the people on the world are atheist. It is only in places with poor education systems like Turkey and America that religion is still strong.
The less education people have the more religious they are just because they don't know any better.
Go anywhere else in the world besides the USA and tell them you believe man and dinosaur existed at the same time. Only in Turkey or other even more primitive countries would that would be accepted.
2007-11-17 11:18:31 · answer #2 · answered by Buke 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because we have a massive population of functional illiterates. Shoot, just watch any of the trivia shows ("Are you smarter than a 5th grader", "1 against 100", and so forth).
People who are successful in all walks of life and had great records in school don't know that frogs aren't reptiles; can't figure out how many vowels are in a word; how many e's, vowels or consonants are in a phrase; that Mongolia is in Asia; that tigers are found in Asia. There are so many other examples.
We are an ignorant society by choice.
Religion has given me pat answers, without merit, intended to dissuade more questions, and questions about the pat answers.
Science has given me answers that actually address the question AND more questions that I can investigate.
That's the difference.
2007-11-17 11:26:40 · answer #3 · answered by Skeff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Duh?
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2007-11-17 11:11:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because there are still people like you that believe in creationism, in spite of all the scientific evidence to the contrary.
If 200yrs ago was the golden age of science, we are now in the "platinum age of science"
2007-11-17 11:12:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because God knows more about known and yet unknown fields of science than Charles Darwin and the rest of mankind will ever know.
2007-11-17 11:12:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because it's human nature to take shortcuts in our thinking.
Why waste time actually learning about what Darwin set in motion scientifically when you can just say "god dunnit"?
2007-11-17 11:11:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith will always be ahead of Science...... see statements like that are why.
2007-11-17 11:14:02 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is dying,. Your eyes are just blinded by the glare of knowledge.
2007-11-17 11:11:17 · answer #9 · answered by Gee Whizdom™ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Superstition had a major head start.
2007-11-17 11:11:30 · answer #10 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋