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post Apr 12 2010, 02:40 PM

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QUOTE(kenmirzz @ Apr 12 2010, 02:34 PM)
Reason always prevailed over faith. In fact, faith has caused enough trouble to humanity because it divides people into "Us" Vs "Them" mentality.

A person of faith may think this way, "My faith is correct, therefore I will go to paradise." "Other faith is wrong, they will be burn eternally in hell fire". That shows the illogicality of faith no matter from whichever angle you look at it.

"God" is not defined as some old guy up there overlooking at us, intervening into our daily affair. Rather, a scientific "God", the single principle underlying creation, the Law and Order of this universe that subjugate all scientific rules under it. If you follow the scientific rules, you will be safe. let me give you an analogy, we human has suffered from natural disasters for thousands of years. Did God played dice with us? No! We human invented scientific means to evade, predict and control the damage caused by natural disasters. In short, we progress and mature , exploring the scientific law to overcome natural disasters. Therefore, in modern nation such as Japan, they suffered a very minimal casualties as a result of earthquake because they are prepared to combat, resist and avoid the severity of the earthquake through the power of science. There are still many laws of science that yet to be discovered, this unchangeable rules can be categorized as "God".
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Can you count how many times scientists(Albert Einstein being one) have been misconstrued by the mainstream and the religious types as having accepted 'their' god. SO many times. It is perhaps for the best that they avoid the term god to not confuse those with a lesser understanding of what they(the scientists) are talking about.

 

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