Puppyroach on 30 January 2016
| o_O.Q said: its kind of funny how people pretend that at any point in history that they have the world figured out... around 100 or so years ago mercury was considered a miracle cure by cutting edge scientists a few hundred years back the most prominent thinkers thought the earth was flat and i'm sure that in a hundred years people will look back and laugh at the contrast between how arrogant most people are now with regards to their perceived understanding of the world compared to their ignorance of what is actually going on scientists of today think a giant explosion created everything but concede that over 95% of the matter around us cannot be measured directly and cannot give an answer for how this explosion could have happened from nothing besides that if you ask me with all of the side effects the drugs we take today have, the cures we use today aren't that much progressed from my earlier example if someone looks with open eyes they can clearly see some of the same irrational, faith based kind of thinking in the scientific and specifically the atheistic community ( especially with other ideologies like feminism becoming prominent in them ) that they accuse theisst of and it really is extremely funny when you see it for what it is anyway with regards to belief in god yes it is a faith based belief and not a belief based on empirical evidence but the point i'm making is that no one not even atheists are free of faith as an atheist after all you have to have faith that your senses are giving you an accurate picture of the world and if they aren't then your scientific observations are shit sure you could have tools to widen your perception but those could be flawed too and you still have to use your senses to interpret what data they give you anyway if you marry someone you must have some degree of faith in your belief that they really love you and aren't just their to exploit you when people put a government in power they have to have some degree of faith that they won't just be exploited ( although most people seem to be aware that this is generally not a smart beliefs to have anyway ) and the examples go on and on... no one in this world is free from faith or irrational beliefs for that matter |
Well, the only consistent fact through the years is, that whatever discoveries we have debunked, the presence of an omnipotent god has grown smaller and smaller.
And as a person that do not believe in things we have no proof of, what you would call an atheist, I do not have faith that my observations are true at all times because through scientific methodology I can always be proven wrong. And I welcome that. That is the difference between a religious person and one that does not have faith in any specific thing: The willingness to accept that your observation and knowledge is wrong.
