FA_Q2
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*sigh* Here we go again.On the other hand, it is not blurring science with faith to acknowledge that religious convictions/beliefs/faith or whatever you want to call it does answer questions that science cannot, and there are billions of question that we cannot answer using science or faith.
The way I see it, any credible scientist acknowledges that we currently know a teensy fraction of all the science that there is to know and that science is no more adequate to prove or dispute religious faith than religious faith is adequate to prove or dispute science.
In my world science, incuding evolution, and religious faith coexist together quite comfortably. The way I see it, God was author of both.
"religous convictions/beliefs/faith or whatever you want" can answer religous questions but never scientific questions.
That's why I don't let the religion of atheism tell me what science is. There is one book that has always got it right and that is the Bible. The rest come and go because they are based on what man hopes/prays/believes is true and has nothing to do with reality.
I do not actally expect you to understand what I am going to say since you are comming with that position to start with but I guess I will say it agin...
Atheism is NOT a religion, it is a lack of a religion. I am an atheist, I do not DISbelive in a god, I simply lack ANY belief in any god. For me, there has to be proof or evidence for a particular belief for me to believe in it and I have no personal evidence for god, therefore I choose not to believe in any religion. Atheism is NOT telling you what science is, science has set the rules that it operates in separate from whatever your personal beliefs are. There is mountains of evidence for evolution and that IS the science. Evolution is NOT an atheistic belief, it is a scientific theory and all there is to do for you to understand that is a good look at the evidence that has been gathered. If you choose to ignore all of it, that is your choice but do not come in here claiming that atheism is some kind of religion and that evolution is a construct of that. There are many in this very thread that are quite religious and manage to still understand evolution and the science behind it.