I'm not sure we should take pride in this...
One of the worse photos I've ever seen...
I will repeat, science has done a poor job of explaining itself, leaving itself wide open to shit like this...
Define "all loving" for me just one more time...
Delusion: Knowing that prayer doesn't work and praying anyway....
And this is the best he can do...
Interesting that the exact same number of believers and non-believers are tested in just the same ways.
Raise them in the way of the lord...
Most of the people on earth think that their country is the best country.
Almost all men think that their wife is the best wife.
Your sports team is the best sports team.
And, of course, your religion is the best religion.
Of all the thousands of religions (new ones popping up everyday) you have picked or been born into the very best and only true religion. What are the chances?
Of course, all believers think the same thing and for the same reasons.
Let's assume that you, personally, are right. How do you explain the delusion of the people who believe in Zeus or Ra or Rev. Moon or Jim Jones or the Pope? Are they all fools and you and yours are the only ones astute enough to see the truth?
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fwiw, one must be very sheltered and credulous for that sort of anti-science inanity to be persuasive. It confuses science with atheism, so it's automatically meaningless (or stupid) to huge swathes of religious people who appreciate, understand and practice science (most of them in western Europe and probably 50% of them in the USA).
If science were stood opposite religion in a boxing ring of ideas (which I'm not sure is the best way to think of it), the problem wouldn't be that science isn't winning but that religion has cut its own legs off before the bell. If we wanted to (ethically) "beat" these sorts of people, we'd need to first reattach their legs and give them a good bit of physical therapy so they could walk properly. Then we could have a fight.
iow, the two systems are not on a level playing field. It's not really science's job to be competing with these people (science is just set of methodologies). There are some things related to science that people need to take onboard (and apply to themselves, critically) before they can appreciate why science is good and proper in certain scenarios. Foremost are naturalism and skepticism. If they don't understand the importance of those two ideas and if they can't apply them reasonably to their own worldviews, they'll always be able to reject science out of hand.
So the problem isn't really that some people are kneejerk anti-science ninnies; that's just a symptom. The underlying disease is that these sorts of people don't know how to think properly about thinking. They're not introspective enough to ever change their thinking, are too confident in emotional reasoning, place too much value in tradition for its own sake, etc. You generally have to change that mentality before they'll appreciate science.
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