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I guess when it comes to atheism i just don't really understand what the deal is. I know that they don't believe in god, i just don't understand why they can't just leave it at that. I guess religious folk of a certain sort do the same thing. The whole "let's organize just like the religious folk" thing just screams insecurity to me. Then again, i've never really felt the need to proclaim or justify my belief system to complete strangers.
I also don't think it necessarily makes sense to defer to science on matters where science has nothing to say. Besides, science only applies to places where we as a species can apply it, and scientists are just as prone to irrational pursuits as religious folk are(string theory? unified field theory? evolutionary psychology?). Ask a string theorist how they plan to verify the existence of something that's theoretically 10^-35 meters in diameter, and they'll say "I don't fucking know." The idea seems to be that if you put enough time into working on the problem, if you make enough of a sacrifice, one day you'll reach the promised land of little strings everywhere.
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