I like how you skip the bull**** and get right down to the grit of what the science/religion argument really is.
I've heard some rather intelligent people use similar discussions to legitimize their belief in God. I must, must, point out though, science begins it's philosophy at the core of our senses. Religion has a very kosher place within science, as a deviation of the human mind, and has all the support of other history, other religions, mainstream science and sciences such as psychology, behind it. Purely mathematically, science delivers greater odds of being correct. One of God's requirements of you is to believe in him, for him to grant you eternal life in heaven. It seems a tad ridiculous to create a being that can only deal in comparisons and odds, expect it to ignorantly refuse the entirety of that lay before him to compare, and choose one of the several religions that defy all that is seen and compared with those 5 senses you've given him, doesn't it? That sort of flaw in logic is something I'd expect more from a man.
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Originally Posted by ProtomanMt
It doesn't hurt to believe in something, what do you have to lose?
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Well, yes, it does. Nearly every war in recorded history has been due to religion, or some other type of intrusive, non-negotiable belief that influenced mob mentality. On an individual level, people need to eliminate that sort of thinking to keep history from repeating itself; but as I often say, people are too ****ing stupid to do that.