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Originally Posted by x-deviant-x
The majority of humans believe in some form of God. Atheists are a very small minority of the world's population. Therefore it is on the atheist's shoulders to prove to the rest of the "ignorant masses" that God does NOT exist.
Isaac Newton, another brilliant scientist, also very religious.
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What does Isaac Newton have to do with any of this? Why is his scientific authority important in the discussion about the validity of believing in a supernatural?
So because we're a minority, it is us who is actually wrong? I'm not surprised you'd make that argument since homosexuals are a minority and you also think they're wrong. I suppose that if somehow the majority of people started to believe that all deer were made out of sound and the taste of green, that they'd all be right and again, the minority would have to prove everyone wrong.
Deviant. Just because everyone believes there's a god holds nothing about its empirical truth value. People can want anything to exist all day long, it doesn't make it actually TRUE.
The reason Alan has a problem with your view on god is because when you use god to fill in the gaps of scientific ignorance, you CEASE to gain or search for any more meaningful knowledge. We don't know how to permanently treat cancer or cure AIDS. You would simply assert that it's God or someone else of your mindset would do that. That proposition HALTS scientific inquiry right in its tracks. If you can just say "God did it" everytime something you don't understand happens, then you are REFUSING to understand the world around you. Making shit up as you go along because it makes you personally feel better is NOT a good way to understand the world and I would dare say that any scientist that would level this kind of reasoning in his or her science should be stripped of their credentials outright because they have ceased to think.