06-26-2008, 10:39 AM
hotzester Wrote:What I'm saying is this - In a nutshell, because despite what our post counts may say, none of us REALLY have enough time to debate it properly....
Science can never actually disprove religion. Faith is defined as "belief that is not based on proof". (This is one definition, anyway.) Science may say "People evolved from ants", but faith says "I know that's what you say, but I believe in something else." In the end, one of us will be proven wrong.
The flaw is that science is not infallible. Some scientists say that my SUV is creating global warming. Others do not. Some scientists said the earth is flat. But then science changed it's mind and decided that it was round. To the contrary, faith hasn't so much as batted in eye in over 2000 years.
I like what Christopher Hitchens has to say about religion.
"What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
Science didn't "change it's mind" about the Earth being flat, evidence proved that the Earth was round, so Science accepted that evidence.
Atheists shouldn't have to provide scientific evidence that there is no God, the religious should have to provide scientific evidence that there is a God. Americans typically demonize Atheists because of what they don't understand, and what they don't want to attempt to understand.