believing in evolution is as relgious as not believing in evolution.
That simply isn't true.
believing in philosophy is a religion (if you want to get right down to it). it is trusting in the ultimate knowledge of man (being supposedly far superior) than a Creator who has lived many more years than man.
We agree. Well, we agree that philosophy is bogus - it's bogus for the same reason as religion is, because it relied on beard scratching introspection to decide how things work <scratch beard> "Let me think...yes! The world was created by a turtle" <scratch beard> "...on a wednesday..." "Excellent Aristotle I shall tell the people"
just like the law of gravity. yoiu can't escape it - even if you wish
I assume you mean in the sense that you have to accept it, whatever the bible says or doesn't about it. But most areas of science either are, or will be inescapable in that sense
Folk wouldn't spend so much time hoping to find that seaslugs disprove it otherwise.
- or you say, there is no God. you still can't escape death, ressurrection, and judgement. if you take a VERY SMALL risk now, you have nothing to lose.
Fallacy of birfurcation. "Either there's a god or there isn't" aren't the only possibilities, especially when the consequences of each are considered.
The existence of a God or creator, doesn't necessarily lead to any conclusion that you should kill lambs, not work on Sunday, chop the end of your willy off, face a particular direction from time to time, strip naked and dance around stones or whatever else a religion might suggest it means.
It might be that the creator of the universe wants people to not believe in him or bother him and leave him in peace or suffer horribly for eternity.[Chances are a guy that good at maths and physics will be diagnosed with asperger's after all
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It also sounds like you're suggesting you can trick God by pretending to believe he exists, or if you do geniunely believe, and it's not true then you've not lost much. Or you hope that some argument of assessing religion with the logic of what will happen if you believing or not will satisfy. Unfortunately that doesn't work.
e.g you've made wild claims that God will sort out other nations that have different religious beliefs - [the kind of comment that has often caused the more fanatical to get all outraged with each other and decide to give their God a helping hand]
How will he do that? It seems no less logical to suppose that other religions are right, and thus that their wild claims would then be true - perhaps it's wise to check what their God has planned for their non-believers before deciding the one you picked is low risk
If we are to believe in God because of some argument about the risks, then I'd say if your god is nice about it, wouldn't folk be better worshipping the one that might be more miffed?
How would Odin take it if he's true, he's not been in the papers for ages.
At the very least, I'd be more careful about assessing the risk. It's certainly true that people who have expressed belief in a particular religion or lack of it have had in the past very real consequences from that. AIUI there are around 2000 dead Americans, not to mention the others, because some loony believed that God spoke to him.
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