The difference being? We have facts to back our shit up. You have dozens of uncorroborated religious texts that each say they’re the definitive word of the god or gods popular at the time. It changes from age to age, civilization to civilization. Nothing in constant except the unbridled, unshakable TRUTH that YOU were lucky enough to have been born to the chosen group.
First the world was born of an egg, then it was given birth to by the sky, then it was snapped into existence, then Xenu destroyed the souls of the thetans or some stupid shit. None of it matches, none of it is backed up by evidence, math or research.
Ours, on the other hand, it backed by the unwavering generations of scientists who built on the work of those who went before them. Teasing the truth one fabric at a time. Nature backs us up. The numbers back us up. You’ve got nothing but blind faith to believe in. I’ve got proof gathered by people who followed strict methodology in getting it, and then double-checked by others to verify they didn’t miss anything, then sent out for review by the world with everything that’s useless is knocked away.
It wasn’t a bunch of shepherds sitting around a campfire wondering what held the moon up…and that’s the definition that stuck.
Let me ask you how strong YOUR faith is: your child has pernicious anemia and is dying. Do you pray to your gods to save it, or do you go to the doctor and get a vitamin B12 shot to cure it and be done with it?
Right the fuck on Spoonman!
I wish I knew who said it, but you reminded me of a quote I really enjoyed.
To call faith blind is to use an adjective uselessly.
It should be noted that not all atheists buy into all those theories.
There are several alternatives to the Big Bang theory, for example, some of which could have merit in the future as far as explaining things it can’t.
On the less scientific side of things, there are UFO religions that believe aliens who were not gods created humans rather than them coming about through abiogenesis and evolution.
Just noting, just cause those things are valid and backed up, doesn’t mean all atheists believe them.
Aug 30, 2009 @ 19:54:49
So much for our contention that atheism is nothing but an opinion about the existence of deity.
Aug 31, 2009 @ 19:51:37
The difference being? We have facts to back our shit up. You have dozens of uncorroborated religious texts that each say they’re the definitive word of the god or gods popular at the time. It changes from age to age, civilization to civilization. Nothing in constant except the unbridled, unshakable TRUTH that YOU were lucky enough to have been born to the chosen group.
First the world was born of an egg, then it was given birth to by the sky, then it was snapped into existence, then Xenu destroyed the souls of the thetans or some stupid shit. None of it matches, none of it is backed up by evidence, math or research.
Ours, on the other hand, it backed by the unwavering generations of scientists who built on the work of those who went before them. Teasing the truth one fabric at a time. Nature backs us up. The numbers back us up. You’ve got nothing but blind faith to believe in. I’ve got proof gathered by people who followed strict methodology in getting it, and then double-checked by others to verify they didn’t miss anything, then sent out for review by the world with everything that’s useless is knocked away.
It wasn’t a bunch of shepherds sitting around a campfire wondering what held the moon up…and that’s the definition that stuck.
Let me ask you how strong YOUR faith is: your child has pernicious anemia and is dying. Do you pray to your gods to save it, or do you go to the doctor and get a vitamin B12 shot to cure it and be done with it?
Sep 01, 2009 @ 05:55:08
Right the fuck on Spoonman!
I wish I knew who said it, but you reminded me of a quote I really enjoyed.
To call faith blind is to use an adjective uselessly.
Oct 13, 2009 @ 13:59:40
It should be noted that not all atheists buy into all those theories.
There are several alternatives to the Big Bang theory, for example, some of which could have merit in the future as far as explaining things it can’t.
On the less scientific side of things, there are UFO religions that believe aliens who were not gods created humans rather than them coming about through abiogenesis and evolution.
Just noting, just cause those things are valid and backed up, doesn’t mean all atheists believe them.