Jeremy
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So it's not okay to say the two apples on your table are in fact two apples according to science. But it is okay that to say there's a God almighty up in the heavens that governs our every movement?
Scientists at least try to see the big picture, but slwoly unraveling it piece by piece. The only way we have in trying to unravel it. Through trial and error. Religion cuts people off from that quest and (in my opinion) keeps them in the dark, leaving them with assumptions and beliefs that are unchangable.
Nah, I'm not saying that either way is right - religion is just as based in our perceptions as science is. I like science and I like religion, I just don't like how extreme people take them to be - my main point is not that one is inherently right or wrong, but both have the potential to be so. I dislike it when people are so stuck to their ideas and beliefs that they reject anything the other side says - and both theists and atheists can have a tendency to do just that. My posts are basically just my justification for taking the middle road - those of us who realize that there is a reason to have aspects of both religion and science when constructing one's worldview, because both have good aspects - but also avoiding the worst of them as well.
The weakness of this, however, is the lack of certainty. If you take the middle road when it comes to issues like this, you can't convince yourself of the truth, because you understand that the truth is too complex to understand. Some people find that hard to swallow.. when I tell both deeply religious and deeply scientific people about my views, they both react in similar ways - they struggle to understand (as one friend of mine put it) "How I stay sane".