I think its kinda funny when you reject the Bible because it's written by man but you embrace science so strongly even though that was all written by guess who....MAN. =P
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I think it's kinda funny that you can't tell the difference between man writing as a questioning man(as in science), and man writing under the claim of supernatural influence(as in the Bible, or any other religious book), claiming to write for God or Gods.
There is a simple test you can perform to decide which one to put more emphasis on:
I disregard anyone who uses an answer containing the word "god".
Yeah, but science is descriptive, not prescriptive. It tells us how things are, not how we ought to behave. There is too much temptation for a human leader to use God as his big, mean buddy "who's gonna kick your butt if you don't listen to me". The Roman Emperors, Louis XIV, Mohamed, Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell, William Miller and a host of others have used God as a stick to push people into following them.
The Bible claims it was written by (or inspired by, whatever the fundies are peddling these days) God. If it was written by man, then it is a book of lies.
Science has made no such claim.
We don't distrust the bible for being written by humans, we already know that it was. We distrust it for falsely claiming that it was NOT.
I think its kinda funny when you don't drink hydrochloric acid because it's an acid but you embrace Vitamin C so strongly even though it is guess what, also an acid. Yup, total sense, right there.
It's not even so much that I reject the Bible so much as I understand that it's a book of morals. Comparing it to scientific literature is apples and oranges.
And if a scientist claimed to be inspired to search for answers because of a love for God, would you believe what he said because he had divine inspiration?
No, I reject the Bible because there's no evidence to back it up, and because a good deal of it has been disproven by science.
And I believe science because they have evidence and they do experiments and prove everything.
Except that science is based on observable data. Yes, man writes the analyses, but when it comes down to it, it's still something we can go and see for ourselves. If I tell you that dropping a pencil will cause it to fall to the floor, you don't have to believe me, but you can also try it for yourself and see that the pencil still falls.
I'm just glad there was a bible kickin' around the place 'cuz one day I ran out of toilet paper and just took a long, greasy, smelly shit. The pages of the bible are so, uh, absorbing.
Science, tested and proven by man, ok I can believe in that. A 4000(?) year old cobbled together set of stories swiped from even more ancient cultures, written by man? Might as well believe in GRIMMS FAIRY TALESS>
No..this is an honest observation. Science is testable and actually creates many useful things for mankind such as medicine, refridgerators, and such.
Religion, depending on which one of the thousands in existence that you may worship, has a history of doing absolutely nothing for man except false hope and mind control and opposing progress.
The bible is a collection of recipes for disaster, written by assorted goatfuckers.
Science grows a bit with each new discovery.
Goat herders and 2000 years of greedy rich people trying to get their way
OR
Intelligent people with a thirst for knowledge and do not exploit people for money unless for more research.
I think I know who I'm going to listen to.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Look what science has achieved and compare that to what the bible has achieved. Then it is easy to understand exactly why one is trusted by rational people and the other is not.
It was written by men and women who can explain it to you, and can invite you into the lab and show you how the instruments work, and will show you the design of the tests and the resulting statistics, and can show you the rocks and the fossils and the telescopes and the various types of polymers and ...well, just about everything. And they've all had their work corroborated by other researchers.
Now can your bible do that?
The Bible was written by ancient old men, to control the masses. It was rewritten and translated and retracted from and added to and translated again and again. The New part contradicts the Old part, and the parts have contradictions within the parts as well. A few parts are beautifully written, some parts are long-winded, some parts are cruel and sadistic, and most parts are downright boring.
Science is written by men and women who have studied and researched their field for years, maybe decades. They publish their findings, and other scientists, who wanted to be the ones publishing them in the first place, are checking the hypotheses to make sure they are valid and repeatable. Only after that educated, informed vetting scrutiny does it become a theory.
Yeah, it's funny that you see any resemblance between the two, besides them both being written by the only known beings that is able to write.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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