Posted by:
sonoma
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Date: January 01, 2011 03:46PM
If we had unlimited time, we could objectively test everything, but that is impossible, so we must rely on the word of others. Even those that think that truth can be revealed and confirmed by internal emotional responses (the burning bosom) have to rely on the "authority" of others, because you can't pray about EVERYTHING. IMHO, this is where atheists are clearly superior to those who cling to religion/superstition. For my "authority" I look to groups like the National Academy of Sciences, who's members are the greatest minds of our time, and overwhelmingly atheist. The body of knowledge/objective truth developed by Science in just the past few hundred years makes a joke of the paltry and absurd "truths" that the various religions still try to pawn off onto the simple and gullible.
Here is my challenge to those who cling to religion/superstition. If you had to live in a world WITHOUT the truths and resulting technology brought by your religion, or a world WITHOUT the truths and resulting technology brought by the scientific method, which would you choose?