please note: I generalize "God" as all religions. I'm aware not everyone in conyers is christian, or isn't. just accept my generalization. so if you're muslim, excuse it. please.to spice it up just a bit more
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Science. I was raised pretty strictly Catholic until I turned about ten, so it's not from lack of background. The more and more I read into the history of religion, the more and more it becomes based on what people saw or believed, or in some cases made up based on something else equally porous. Now, I'm all for people believing in a god, to each his own, it's just personally not for me. I tend to believe physical evidence and more likely ideas than what some religions throw at me.
And believe me, I did a semester report on this, I've read a lot. I'm not talking about anything I don't know about.
Science and Religion have the same origin: Humans' unrelenting quest for answers, and to know the world around them. They just go about solving life's questions in different ways. Science is by definition comprehensive and gruelingly fact-based. The very foundations of science are tedious analyzation and skeptical rationalization, and nothing is considered until it has been unapologetically scraped with a fine-toothed comb. So when something is universally accepted in any field of science, one can rest assured that it's a sound theory (i.e. EVOLUTION
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and yes, you're thinking along the lines of metaphysics.
That science and religin solve the same problems, and do the same things, it just depends on how you want to look at it.
or you could look at it with a taoist point of view, and say that everything that sciences proves or disproves, is just an act of God(s). A God might want a city wiped out. but instead of just "poof" gone, the God will send a hurricane to wipe that city out.
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And believe me, I did a semester report on this, I've read a lot. I'm not talking about anything I don't know about.
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i'd rather have something to believe in
as opposed to nothingness
whether it be the truth or not
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and yes, you're thinking along the lines of metaphysics.
That science and religin solve the same problems, and do the same things, it just depends on how you want to look at it.
or you could look at it with a taoist point of view, and say that everything that sciences proves or disproves, is just an act of God(s). A God might want a city wiped out. but instead of just "poof" gone, the God will send a hurricane to wipe that city out.
wow. somene made an intelligent response.
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