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Old 06-05-2009, 01:44 PM
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Everything we know for sure, every single piece of technology we have at our disposal came from science, reason and mathematical processes... As a society, religion doesn't help a bit and, in some cases, it increases suffering and death... Of course, we may feel more confident if we think there is a cosmical father or something like that helping us, but this is taking it individually...

Albert Einstein wasn't theist, he was a pantheist... He believed the natural laws were god... Like in a metaphor... He didn't believe in a being that is watching for us... And also, I think that by "intuitive" he meant "imaginative, creative", as supposedely a scientist should be...

We already did the impossible: some centuries ago, people thought nothing that was heavier than air would fly, and therefore it was impossible to us, humans, to fly, but now we have giant machines, which weigh much more than air, taking us to far away places... Nothing is impossible...

Knowing the "what" but not the "why" and the "how" is like knowing the story less than half way ... The"why" and the "how" are much more interesting and hard to know...

Evidences are things that you can show anybody and that person wouldn't have other option than to say "yes, the X event occurred...". Faith can't do that, or else even the most rational scientists in the world would have to accept it as evidence... Or as a way to achieve proofs... Actually, one of the objectives of the first model of science was to try to explain things without using supernatural explanations... And that one hasn't changed yet...

And finally, both doubt and fear are good things: doubt makes you look for knowledge, fear makes you want to change things... Both of them, mixed with moral and ethics, are extremely useful...
How convenient for something or someone which existence can't be proved by science or any rational means that faith is good and both doubt and fear are bad...
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