Atheism

[kprasad]

Re: Atheism

@yazdi

3. I am not an atheist. I believe in God because when I observe the facts around me I see precision and harmony. Speed of light is constant to nano seconds.. the planets revolving around the sun have a precise speed.. a little bit less they would crash in to the sun.. and a little bit more would take them out of the orbit. For me these things constitute an intelligent design and indicate towards an Intelligent Designer whom we call Allah, God, Yahweh etc. etc.

With all due respect, you are assumptions are false. The speed of planets revolving around the sun is not constant! Also, the speed of light changes according to the medium through which it is traveling. It is only constant in a vacuum.

But, I understand your point. It’s a point I can concur with. Science is not the realm or religion. I’m reminded of two quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings… Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.
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*Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
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@psyah

I arrogantly don’t consider myself a person who lacks understanding scientific principles … that is a flaw in me … but boy do I not understand evolution … it betrays every “self-perceived” scientific bone in my body … Please can someone explain it to me … I would love to know how it happens … on a sub-cellular level, DNA level, possible reversibility, reproducibility, scientific intervention to cause speciation, and so on … I want to see this happen … and learn about it in the text books … Is that too much to ask? My problem with evolution is that the sellers of this idea sell it as a science and not as a dogma as it appears to me …

To quote Charles Babbage: *I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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I don’t mean this as an ad hominem attack at all, please don’t take it as such. But I’m flabbergasted by this response. It is beyond me how someone that claims to have an understanding of science, engage in polemics, and be so deeply flawed in the basic postulations of the subject. I am utterly awe stricken.