Khaled said:right, but if a new theory appears that is more realistic with more evidence than evolution, people (the majority at least) will drop evolution and state the new theory as a fact. but i find it hard to believe that all christans/muslims/jews will drop their religious beliefs for any reasons (it's only possible on an individual level, but a new world event will not make them stop believing)
I cant speak for everybody, but people convert, lose their faith, regain it, all the time.
gravity theory, when applied to a large enough schale, will give wrong results far froom reality
That just shows that science can be wrong, and thus a belief in science is a belief based on faith that it is the best possible answer, but still faith none the less.
people tend to trust people who claim to have evidence, as long as they know that this evidence is at their disposal. if someone doesn't believe in evolution, he can try to understand it, learn about it, and make up his own mind. Whether he does it or not is a different question. Religion on the other hand, specifically asks for faith, and religious people in general will blame anyone who asks for evidence for religious things.
There are different forms of evidence. A lot of religious people have evidence that a God exists, its just not always a form of evidence science can messure, just like scientific evidence is not always something religion can messure.
I disagree, I happen to think its the exact same blind leap of faith.sci-fi = science fiction
i don't think people who believe in aliens do so the same way religious people believe in God.
Why is the existance of aliens much more credible? Because its cool? Because they are in movies? There is no hard evidence that aliens exist. Believe in some super intelligent alien species is exactly the same as believeing in some super intelligent God.people who claim that aliens exist, as well as those who claim that they don't, are both doing the same mistake of "believing".
again, those who believe blindly in aliens are wrong. But those who do so based on non credible evidence (which is the case most of the time) can be convinced otherwise.
i think the best attitude towards this is:" i don t know"
and i would agree with anyone who, when asked about god, admits not to know.
but as i said, religion asks people to believe no matter what, and i think that not believing in god is a sin according to some religion.
i think also that the ideas of alien existence is much more credible that that of God. And the same way, i know a lot of people who believe in god, but find the iea of alien existance laughable.
Furthermore Im not entirely convinced that one doesnt equal the other anyway.
Look at Egyptians, it seems to me that they basically believed their God's were aliens, in their context of understanding. Is their Religion more credible to you because it could be aliens and you believe aliens are more credible than God?
doesn't prove anything. Until the next time the church chooses to adjust some info from the bible, believer are still bound to accept this "new edition".
Im not bound to accept anything, its a choice I can make. No one puts a gun to my head.
In addition, the mere fact that the church can change what people believe is also in argument for brainwashing. Why wasn't this done long time ago??
Is the fact that science can change what people believe an argument for brainwashing?
doesn't judaism and christianity require faith?
on the other hand, islam is robably the religion that has had the most interpretations (there are so many confessions within islam)
They do, so? So does science. What is your point?
historically, no one was entitled to change the Quran, this is why unlike the bible, there s only one version.
That still doesnt prove its actually the writing of "the prophet" or that it wasnt changed somewhere along the way. Putting a law in place doesnt prove that law hasnt been broken before.
ÿou can check the qualifications and the degrees of a psychiatrist, can you do the same with a priest?
Of course you can. If someone goes to talk to a priest they want to talk to a priest and can check his qualifications as a priest.
again, if the pope says something, religious christians will immediately accept it as a truth.
Woah, thats a very broad generilzation you just made.
... True, just not by kids on the internet who want to appear like they are hip and down with the latest revolutionary anti-norm/establishment way of thinking.But if Stephen Hawkings comes out with a theory, he is expected to back it up with evidence.
) by faulty information on the internet from people who have a hidden agenda and who take quotes out of context by isolated scientists that no serious professional listens to because it contradicts the massive evidence for evolution that exists. So many intermediate forms have been discovered between fish and amphibians, between amphibians and reptiles, and between reptiles and mammals. The fossil record provides consistent evidence of systematic change through time. For example, a clear line of fossils traces the transition between whales and hoofed mammals. However, many individual mutations must accumulate before two populations become totally separated. The process is spread across thousands of generations.