Willravel

We have a thirst for knowledge that is innate, but we also have a fear of the unknown that is innate. The thirst for knowledge is scientific and promotes progress. The fear of the unknown is not reasonable and slows, if not stops, progress. Caution is of course reasonable with the unknown, but fear is counterproductive.

There is no reason to believe that god exists. As I outlined in my previous post, the function of theism is to act as an interim between the dawn of consciousness and the beginning of reason. As such, the continuation of theism has acted and will continue to act as an anchor to reasonable scientific progress. Until evidence of god is discovered or given, the existence of supernatural beings or occurrences is fiction. When we allow fiction to run our lives or have an effect on society we are undoing scientific and reasonable progress. Every time that creationism is taught on equal footing to Darwinism in science classrooms (as a symptom of the belief in fiction), science is stabbed in the back. Of course not all believers are going to suggest that we learn creationism, but what do those believers do when they have to explain the origin of life to their own children? My father is against teaching creationism in public schools, but it didn't stop him from reading to me from Genesis.

I'm not telling anyone to change, as it's not my place. I can, however, explain exactly what I see when I put belief of the supernatural under the microscope. It's dangerous.