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tiger777 · 07-06-2007, 04:24 AM

I skimmed through a lot of what was said here and i'd like to comment on some things.

The correlation between intelligence and atheism- It's a fact that the more intelligent or say... inquisitiveness a person is, the more likely they'll become an atheist, at least this is what logic and reason tell me so. Also if i'm not mistaken polls have been taken and african americans are something like 25% more likely to believe in God, +or- 7% in my estimation in terms of the accuracy of my recollection. This isn't a knock on black people, but the situation they grow up in generally doesn't allow for as much inquisitiveness due to the poverty and other factors.

WillTravel- You claim you're positive God doesn't exist. Well if you're refering to the God, that is attributed to the various religions on our planet than i'd be inclined to agree with you. If you think about it the most likely scenario is, people needed to come up with a control method to instill various philosophical and moral principles in people who otherwise would be very unruly. For example the extremely harsh punishments in the old testiment if you didn't abide by the rules, this struck fear into people. It's also a means of attempting to make people feel more secure in terms of the meaning of life and battling the fear of the unknown (death). However if you're also referring to a supernatural God, I would have to disagree with you simply because there's no way in the present state that can really be a certainty based on the current things we have to base it on, such as how the universe was created, etc.

Filthy- Your debate with Will about faith and science. I would have to side with Will on this one. I feel a lot of religious people throw logic and reason out of the window in respect to their faith and dealing with science. I think they often pick and choose which aspects of their religion to follow whereas when they're dealing with science it's almost all logic and reason. I feel a lot of people want to believe in something so badly they simply unplug the logic and reasoning part of their brain and use purely blind faith. Which is okay, as long as it makes them happy i'm all for it, all i'm trying to say is they're being a bit more illogical and unreasonable when dealing with religion in comparison to science.

07-06-2007, 04:24 AM	#174 (permalink)
tiger777 Tilted	I skimmed through a lot of what was said here and i'd like to comment on some things. The correlation between intelligence and atheism- It's a fact that the more intelligent or say... inquisitiveness a person is, the more likely they'll become an atheist, at least this is what logic and reason tell me so. Also if i'm not mistaken polls have been taken and african americans are something like 25% more likely to believe in God, +or- 7% in my estimation in terms of the accuracy of my recollection. This isn't a knock on black people, but the situation they grow up in generally doesn't allow for as much inquisitiveness due to the poverty and other factors. WillTravel- You claim you're positive God doesn't exist. Well if you're refering to the God, that is attributed to the various religions on our planet than i'd be inclined to agree with you. If you think about it the most likely scenario is, people needed to come up with a control method to instill various philosophical and moral principles in people who otherwise would be very unruly. For example the extremely harsh punishments in the old testiment if you didn't abide by the rules, this struck fear into people. It's also a means of attempting to make people feel more secure in terms of the meaning of life and battling the fear of the unknown (death). However if you're also referring to a supernatural God, I would have to disagree with you simply because there's no way in the present state that can really be a certainty based on the current things we have to base it on, such as how the universe was created, etc. Filthy- Your debate with Will about faith and science. I would have to side with Will on this one. I feel a lot of religious people throw logic and reason out of the window in respect to their faith and dealing with science. I think they often pick and choose which aspects of their religion to follow whereas when they're dealing with science it's almost all logic and reason. I feel a lot of people want to believe in something so badly they simply unplug the logic and reasoning part of their brain and use purely blind faith. Which is okay, as long as it makes them happy i'm all for it, all i'm trying to say is they're being a bit more illogical and unreasonable when dealing with religion in comparison to science.