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Originally Posted by GoNative
Frankly what I find incredibly scary is the fact that even though we are now well into the 21st centrury people still believe in the paranormal. It truly astounds me that people still believe in things like gods or ghosts or pshycics or astrology, etc.
These concepts which have their roots in the ignorance of the past, when human knowledge of the world around them was extremely limited have no place in todays age in my opinion.
Such willingness to believe in things for which there is no proof whatsoever is in my opinion a dangerous way of thinking. To believe in things on faith rather than logic and reason opens you up to believing in almost anything, I mean where do you decide to draw the line? Such thinking opens you up to being manipulated by religions, governments, cults and just about any crackpot organisation or individuals out there. When you require no proof to beleive in something is there anything that you wouldn't believe in? What for instance is more believable about the stories of Christ over those of Muhammad? Or maybe the Mormon stories of Christ coming to the US? Are they all right or are they all just as ridiculous as each other? In my opinion today more than ever with religious extemism on the rise throughout the world it is becoming more and more important that people turn away from faith based beliefs to those founded on facts and reasoned, logical thought.
The more you expand your knowledge about the world and cosmos around you the more you come to realise how incredibly amazing it is. You need no supernatural explanations to find wonder in everything around you. Science provides all the wonder you could ever want.
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Science can't prove or understand why huskies can change their metabolism speed, but it happens anyway. Science and logic can't prove many things we already know exists, so why go on to say that just because science and logic can't prove a higher power exists, it must not be there? Is it logical to follow something that isn't proved? Is it logical to not follow something when it hasn't been disproved?
Science can manipulate you in the same way as religion can. With science, you're TOLD something you've been TOLD about exists becuase an experiment you were TOLD about gave the results that they TOLD you, etc etc. What if what they TOLD you was a lie? With enough details, you can make any "scientific study" seem legit. Unless you do it for yourself, all you can do with science is trust what articles, TV, and people say. And we all know that second hand sources can prove to be unreliable. As long as someone labels it as science, it must be true, right? Because what something else says is science can never lie to you, right?