Aj wrote:
Thing is with this argument, is Science can explain everything it can explain logically (minus Quantum physics and that lot for a moment), for instance because of one rule it'll make another one work and prove that right, which will prove another right, if you see what I mean? So like no matter what ASDF say's Forkboy will have an answer for it, or just another question that is unanswered, whereas ASDF has to repeat the same thing over and over again because religion doesn't, and in my opinion shouldn't change for Science.
So basically what I'm trying to say is arguing over this is pointlesss because ASDF (though in my opinion wrong) won't change his opinion about it and you can't change his religion.
Nah. See, What you've done is point out why the scientific method is so successful: it rejects what is disproven and embraces that which is either proven multiple times in controlled conditions or is at the least mathematically probable in the case of some theories. Theories that are proven to be wrong, like the Earth being the centre of the universe or the Earth being 6,000 or so years old have been disproven and so people have moved on and looked for new theories, worked on them until they are the most accepted possible explanation for whatever in the scientific community. Perhaps some day soon some theories we hold as correct will be proven to be partially (or maybe even completely wrong) such as Einstein's work corrected Newton's laws of gravity.
Meanwhile religion is based on thousands of year old dogma that is apparently completely unable to change and so ends up promoting harmful, backwards attitudes. Fuck that. Religion should not be given a free-pass, it needs to be challenged at every opportunity because it is on the whole a negative force upon society. It encourages blind obedience to your masters and equates knowledge with evil: better to be ignorant because that is GOOD. Fuck that. It's unhealthy, it's negative, and on top of everything else it is entirely opposed to human nature; we are inquistive beasts who crave knowledges.
Also you say I'm wasting my time but hey, people of religion spend lots of time prosetlysing to non-believers, and that clearly grabs them some converts or they would not do it, so why shouldn't I do it back at them and try to convince them to turn their backs on the dark of ignorance and servitude and into the light of inquiry, knowledge, learning and most importantly, thinking for yourself and challenging the status quo.
