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Date/Time 20 Sep 2014 1:43:35am
According to my understanding Religion is the product of faith and it suggests to me that everyone is religious as they put their faith in something that they cannot prove.
Christians believe in a Creator God based on the evidence of all the obvious order and the fact that most of us humans have much in common when it comes to how we ought to behave and act towards others. We also know that we have the ability to create and change our mind about what we believe and how we should act.
Sadly it is a fact of life that the Christian beliefs have, historically, been misused by those who have personal agendas that are non-Christian such as power seekers etc, hence the crusades and inquisition.
Others believe that we are the produce of some fluke event that began a process, evolution/natural selection, that we are told by such as Professor Dawkins has no purpose other than the survival of the fittest in mind. Natural selection is about eliminating rather than creating. Professor Divine agrees with this and also makes clear that it means we humans have no ‘free will.’ We are simply a product (victims) of some ongoing purposeless process.
Some put their faith in science/scientist; the latter can only explore what exist but this does not explain how it came into existence. To prove what they claim to be a fact a scientist must be able to observe measure and repeat a process. This cannot be done as far as the first cause is concerned or that which has taken millions of years to have occurred. Such events are believed by faith.
It is about time the atheists stopped blaming other faiths for all our ills and begin to offer constructive solutions that will eventually result in the perceived future perfection of mankind.
Finally, if we are the product of unintended and unguided forces then it is unlikely that any can claim to know what is/is not truth. I can not offer any further contribution to this discussion. Thank you for listening.
Best wishes John