If you have ever tried to reason with a religious person, you will know that no matter what you throw at them, they will not change their mind or even consider that they have been sold a Pup and that's fair enough, they apparently see it as some sort of test of their faith but they do wonder why everyone doesn't see what they do, or rather don't see, but believe in it anyway.
I recently heard an argument that science, rather than dispelling religion, has strengthened it which is an interesting argument, to me it is like saying just because Charles Darwin spelt out how man evolved, it doesn't mean that we didn't come from Adam and Eve fully formed but then the religious mind is sometimes a wonder to behold.
The argument is that as science closes the gaps on what was once put down as the work of God, this actively points toward the existence of a God as people are still having religious and supernatural experiences which gives room for belief.
They go on to explain that as Science shows that if the physical laws and constants of the universe were even slightly different, life on Earth and existence itself would be impossible which strongly suggests that it was designed by God for our benefit.
Trying to explain that life only began once the conditions on Earth were right for it to thrive rather than the Earth's conditions being changed to fit life doesn't seem to compute with them and the gaps in our knowledge has been closed through science over the Centuries and will continue to do so.
There is a famous example of religious folk flipping things with the Gods Spectacles analogy where God, while designing humans, put our ears at the side of our head so we could wear spectacles rather than we wear spectacles because we handily have ears on the side of our head to hang them from.
The classic example I always fall back on with Supernatural experiences is Angels, something which 30% of British people and 70% in the USA believe in and many have said to have seen.
Asked what they saw they will explain a human shaped being bathed in celestial light and always with wings rather than the HP Lovecraft horror as described in the Bible as wheels within wheels, the rims of which are covered in eyes and some having four faces so the Angel's they picture is the portrayal of them by Renaissance painters who gave them wings as a way to identify them from the regular people in the painting.
Religion is therefore a collective game of Chinese Whispers which each generation being told, and believing, what they are told by the generation before them without, it appears, stopping to think for themselves about it at all.
Saturday, 8 March 2025
Science Proving God?
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