More Doubts
(Top Posts - Distance From Belief
in christianity - 062500)

You know, upon reviewing my previous Top 20
Doubts post, I realized a not-so-small aspect of
my doubts that's missing from the Top 20 list.

Science.

Feel free to address these doubts:

21) Science is ever-open to searching for truth. Science
is open to experimentation, hypothesis, theory, questioning,
probing, searching. Have a better theory? Propose it and
solicit support for it, based on evidence and meticulous
scientific methodology. Religion, on the other hand, holds
sacred the writings of ancient and clueless humans. Given
a choice, which would you rely on - a) open-minded search
for truth, or b) close-minded acceptance of the writings of
ancient and clueless humans?

22) Universe created in 6 days and god rested - a) preposter-    
ous, b) days = millions/billions of years, said lies OK as the
ancient and clueless humans writing the lies were writing for
ancient and clueless humans who could buy into the lies,
c) the universe is 6,000 or so years old, or d) some humans
will believe anything, so long as some authority figure/fam-
ilial influence/social influence/sexual influence leads them
to believe so, not that they won't have their doubts, mind you,
those influences are much more enticing than truth to the 'd'
crowd.

23) Dinosaurs - what's up?

24) Biblical ignorance of scientific fact, what's up?

25) Christians read the bible and construct a belief that's
based on christian theology, the earth is the center of the
universe. Christians punish and even kill other christians for
deviating from the earth-centric view of existence - christians
discover, eventually, that christians were foolish to follow
such bible-centric/earth-centric views of the universe - what's
up?

26) Christians, many of present-day vintage, construct a
"sex is blessed by god" myth, said myth determining that
any fertilized egg is to be treated as a live and sentient
human being, over and above any interests of the woman
carrying the fertilized egg - of note, most fertilized eggs
die through no act of humans - what's up?

27) Galapagos Islands - evolution - Darwin - modern-day
affirmation of same - no god required or desired - what's
up?

28) Black holes - bible - what's up?

29) Supernovas - bible - what's up?

30) Billions upon billions of galaxies / stars / solar systems
and planets - bible - what's up?

31) It's just instinct - an oft-recited mention by as regards
animals' behaviors and reactions to the world around them;
after all, the bible teaches that animals are subservient to
humans; when I pet my cat and my cat yearns for affection
and attention and interacts with me on a very perceptive
basis, when animals sacrifice and act to save human lives,
what's up?

32) Science reveals layer upon layer of truth and knowledge,
continental shift, asteroid/comet impacts, massive extinc-
tion events, etc..., said truth revealed based on meticulous
research and willingness to go where the data leads you ...
bible reveals the myths of ancient humans - what's up?

...

Oh well, this could go on for quite some time, but suffice
to say, in my view the open-minded search for truth based
on scientific principles far outweighs the myths of ancient
and clueless humans, carried forward from generation to
generation to the present day...