@the last starfighter
heh.. I find it interesting that your high level of scientific knowledge leaves you with the certainty that our scientific knowledge as a whole is missing exactly that; certainty.
what a silly thing to say.
is that not what science is; the search for and understanding of the immutable laws that govern life, existence, and what lies beyond?
Over the centuries science has, and will to continue to, discover and eventually prove what it finds as irrefutable fact. Examples: the speed of light, the force of gravity etc,...
What has religion proven?
Nothing.
Every religion is a hierarchical system of postulates woven into the fabric of facts, spliced into the realities of our daily lives; as in, I am alive and I know that for a fact and I've been told that my life, my being alive, is because of a god that granted that life to me.
See. A simple belief, an unproven idea, worked into the truth of something else and thereby, by proxy, accepted as fact.
At the very least, science attempts to avoid this and prove only that which can actually be validated.
You state that there's no certainty in scientific knowledge yet openly admit to believing in a different system where certainty and proof are avoided.. well.... religiously.
Stating that religion is for weak minded people is an ugly generalization, but that stereotype exists, and is somewhat accurate, because those that question why and how we got here do so from an intellectual basis. They find it hard to accept the simplicity of those that choose not to ask, but instead, readily accept an answer that's been given to them.
There's nothing wrong with either school of thought, but there are certain attributes, specific details about an individual that are similar within each group. And, much like you stated in your post above;
the one thing 'I' know for certain is that the more simple a person is, the weaker they are intellectually, the more likely they are to believe in god.







