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If god/s exist, where will I vanish to?
Because you said so. If I can get to truth by just experience, then I dont need faith.You know this because you were once a true Christian?
Because you said so. If I can get to truth by just experience, then I dont need faith.
Maybe. But according to you I can get to truth without it.We all have faith in something, whether you admit it or not.
Sure, but that you find your internal experiences so convincing does not necessarily make them an accurate description of reality, does it? All you are doing is asserting that the rest of the world is wrong.A truth can become definitive on an individual basis. For example; many Christians have a spiritual experience that makes the truth of Jesus obvious and undeniable. I am one of those Christians.
Scientist might discover evidence that Earth is/was/has been visited by extraterrestrial aliens. This evidence should be presented in a testable, falsifiable hypothesis, and subjected to peer review, unless your intent was simply to cherry-pick information as you see fit to prop up your beliefs.A scientist might discover evidence that points to dinosaurs only being thousands of years old. This evidence might make it definitely true that they should question the actual age of dinosaurs and not just assume they are millions of years old because other scientists have assumed as much.
Why do you think that? So that when "science" doesn't seek to confirm your religious opinion, you can justify some other method of confirming it?That fact that the scientific method excludes the desire for truth in favor of the desire to question reality and form hypothesis. When the reason to question reality and form hypothesis should be to figure out the truth.
We know as best as we can, and we get closer every year. I don't see why I should be concerned about the fact that we aren't all-knowing gods. It seems silly to fret over the fact that we can never truly be 100% sure in the way that you mean it.If the purpose is the former, then how can any individual ever know if they are correct in their beliefs about reality?
Do you need dinosaurs to have existed thousands, not millions, of years ago, for your beliefs to be true?There is evidence that suggests dinosaurs are not millions of years old. How I interpret that evidence is completely up to me.
Search for evidence of young dinosaurs on google and you might be surprised.
Take it all with a grain of salt of course.
What does science have to say about a "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, repopulated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every objective measure to date indistinguishable from nothing? Is this science? No?I agree. My point is from an atheistic perspective, science is irrational, but from a theistic perspective science is very rational.
Sure, but this "bad stuff" is found as a result of scrutiny based on what? "Good stuff"? Who determines what is "good stuff"?
So the "best explanation of how it works" is based on subjective opinions of scientists?
It depends. By any objective measure, does your methodology differ from self-deception?I'm saying personally I have found the answer and I found it by honestly questioning myself and reality with the intent of finding truth. You seem to think this is an irrational thing to do?
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