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- detritus0
but that's what the intellectually inferior do. They don't formulate any substantive beliefs of their own...
flagellum
(Oct 25 07, 05:11)Funny. That's exactly why I've got little to no respect for religionists. For me, the if there is any specific purpose to life, it is to spend it trying to make some sense of it for ourselves. In the meantime - I'll take the sum of the Bible's teachings - "Do unto to others as you would unto yourself"* throw out the rest and spend my years educating myself and trying, as honestly as I can, to 'be one' with my universe.
And flagellum, I do wish you'd stop picking at the limits of science, inferring that the holes we have in our current understanding are somehow supportive of your own claims. That we don't yet understand gravity, or are unable to comprehend the progenitive stages necessary to explain your 'irreducible complexity' (as asinine and hubristic a phrase as I have ever heard) doesn't bother me in the slightest. I appreciate that modern scientific thought is barely a couple of hundred years old and still has centuries, millennia, if not the rest of time to answer all our questions. Compare this with the arrogance of your need to have an absolute framework to explain the world about you NOW, and what's more, demand compliance from opposing views, and I hope you'll begin to see why I've utterly no respect for your beliefs. Do what you will, it's none of my business, but please - stop trying to overwhelm us with your circular arguments, self-completing proofs and theological hot air - it's getting neither you nor us anywhere. In fact, you're probably doing more harm to your cause than you realise. You'd do better to discuss Jesus' teachings and the philosophies contained in the Bible if you want people to respect and respond to your worldview.
I suspect that if God blessed us with a sense of curiosity and wonder, she'd expect us to use it. Fundamentally, that's what science and reason is.
* that way, I can claim to be 'more' than the amoral golems you religionists seem to think us nonbelievers are.