So many of the comments found on stories about science's triumph over religion are of the nature that the issue is either too hard to answer or only leads to another question that would require the intervention of a god. How silly.
The question of a god is a non sequitur. It's a question that only comes up when humans temporarily fail to answer some other question and insert a god of some sort. It's a stop-gap placeholder that has unfortunately become permanent for so many people. Gods--all of them--are an invention of the human mind to try and fill a void that someone can't live with, for whatever reason. It is a flaw in the human psyche, nothing more.
We discover new things all the time--every day, in fact. None of those discoveries has ever pointed to the exiistence of a creature that lives and works outside the rules of the universe and chooses to communicate through hallucinations, ghost writers, and images on tortillas and toast. They always point to that idea being garbage.
Even as the evidence mounts, some humans will still believe differently because it is in their flawed nature to do so. A belief can literally be anything at all so it's not a virture at all. Every time a new question comes up through scientific research, it doesn't mean that someone's magical deity is the answer. It only means we haven't figured it out yet. And, until all the scientists permanently go home we will continue to accumulate more information and better answers. If you want to believe in something, that's a worthwhile place to start.
The question of a god is a non sequitur. It's a question that only comes up when humans temporarily fail to answer some other question and insert a god of some sort. It's a stop-gap placeholder that has unfortunately become permanent for so many people. Gods--all of them--are an invention of the human mind to try and fill a void that someone can't live with, for whatever reason. It is a flaw in the human psyche, nothing more.
We discover new things all the time--every day, in fact. None of those discoveries has ever pointed to the exiistence of a creature that lives and works outside the rules of the universe and chooses to communicate through hallucinations, ghost writers, and images on tortillas and toast. They always point to that idea being garbage.
Even as the evidence mounts, some humans will still believe differently because it is in their flawed nature to do so. A belief can literally be anything at all so it's not a virture at all. Every time a new question comes up through scientific research, it doesn't mean that someone's magical deity is the answer. It only means we haven't figured it out yet. And, until all the scientists permanently go home we will continue to accumulate more information and better answers. If you want to believe in something, that's a worthwhile place to start.
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