Are you baiting me to bait you? - Edit 1
Before modification by Tashmere at 05/12/2010 06:46:21 AM
There is no reason that it should matter to me. I can let people believe whatever they want to when it comes to religious beliefs and respect them. Why not with scientific beliefs? The two are much closer than the proponents of either would be willing to admit. Would ever be able to bring themselves to admit. And why am I baiting you now? I don't know. I had not noticed I had this problem before. Time for some inner house cleaning it looks like. What I say I believe and what I am doing are not in alignment.
Believing in things because of evidence is fundamentally different than believing in things despite a lack of evidence or evidence to the contrary. In other words, the former is rational, while the latter is irrational.
I am not a religious person although I am spiritual. I have no problem with science and evolution makes sense to me. It is the attitude of some scientists that bothers me. The attitude of some religious people bothers me too. In both groups it is the ones that don't just think that they re right and that everyone else is wrong but but also feel the need to be vocal about their lack of respect for the view points of others.
You spoke of believing in things because of evidence. I have mounds of personal evidence that God exists. On the other hand I have to take other people's word for it that men walked on the moon. The two are not mutually exclusive. I am just pointing out that much of what we are told by science are things that the vast majority of us have to take on faith as we don't have the time or means to prove it ourselves. It isn't so different from people believing in various religious beliefs. Just something to think about before you bash the other side.
This is far from what I was originally saying that I didn't think it was such a stretch that their may be other manifestations of life out there besides the ones we are familiar with.