Well, you have to admit it:- What else could fool men into believing there was no God?
What would happen to mens lack of faith if they did not have their Science?
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I want you to think about the implications of what you just said, Sassy. "What would happen to men's lack of faith if they didn't understand the workings of the world around them?" I know thinking isn't one of your strengths -- in fact you very clearly find it to be an undesirable influence on society -- but just give it a shot for a few seconds.
Science is not theology, it has no position on the existence/nonexistence of a god.
Stop spouting false diacotomies and thinking you are a genius.
There are prominent scientists that believe in God Sassy, so you can look for a new straw man to blame for disbelief. Plus, as anevilmeme says science doesn't concern itself with God, as there is no evidence for it and there almost certainly never will be.
Let's see: Either science or mythological bullshit?
Gee that's a difficult one...which one has been more beneficial to mankind over the years, giving us longer life, clean water, modern foods and food storage, medical improvements, modern transportation, modern conveniences, um... THE INTERNET?
What would happen to man's intelligence if it wasn't fucked-up by religion?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it would improve...
Throughout written history we have the disbelief in every cultures God(s). It's even recorded in the Torah and your Bibles.
I for one disbelieved in Christian nonsense long before I developed a still limited knowledge of any scientific field. I accomplished it simply as a comparision study between your God, the Greek Gods or fairy tales and comic books for that matter.
What else could fool men into believing there was no God?
uh ...
> He's invisible
I'm sure there are bunch of other "what elses", but those will do for a start.
So the Bible isn't literally true. If your faith is shaken by that, I feel a bit sorry for you.
And for the record, I was "fooled" by several years of chronic depression.
Let's just imagine for a moment that you're a high school student. You get nearly straight As with some Bs mixed in. Then at some point, your brain decides to just up and stop reuptaking serotonin. You fall into a state of not sadness, but apathy. Absolutely nothing. Your grades drop, the few friendships you had decay, and you end up eventually wishing you had no survival instinct so you could just kill yourself already.
Now try to reconcile that with the concept of an all-loving, all-powerful god - emphasis on all .
(I'm pagan/Wiccan now; I like the philosophy of Wicca - an it harm none, do as ye will - and that's what really matters about a religion, in my opinion.)
us atheists've been around for millennia, much longer than modern science has. the simple act of asking "how do you know that", even about the dominant religious dogma of the time and place, seems to be a rare but still pervasive trait in some subgroup of humanity. science is just a modern way of explaining the world that happens to fit well into the atheist mindset; it, too, keeps asking "how do you know that" --- but one doesn't NEED science to question the gods, it just helps in winning over that large majority of the species who don't particularly want to ask that question and just want a simple pat answer for everything, which is what religion provides.
What else could fool men into believing there was no God?
Science doesn't fool you into anything, it does the opposite actually. It presents you with facts and evidence.
What would happen to mens lack of faith if they did not have their Science?
You want the answer to be they would believe in "God", right? Well... It wouldn't necessarily be your God, and you would still have atheists because "Goddidit" would still be unproven.
Well, without scientific advancement, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Let's put it this way, at least religion would be logical. The vast majority of our world would be inexplicable rather than just the ever decreasing portions of today. When there's so little that you understand, creating Gods responsible for it makes sense.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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