06-16-2015, 10:26 AM
(06-16-2015, 10:12 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm seeing a lot of black and white comparisons when it comes to people of faith and people of science. That is a misrepresentation of religious individuals and scientists to be quite frank. There are men and women of faith that are scientists. They don't attribute things they don't understand to "God did it" and they do seek the scientific answers. Many laypeople that have faith are also not in that category.
Yes, there are people that attribute so much to the divine/supernatural that it seems as though they are content to lay about in ignorance and revel in their closed mindedness. But there are millions of people that have faith and work in fields of science, or who are interested in them, or at the very least read an article on some new scientific discovery and allow that to change how they may see the world or even the universe. Faith is not synonymous with closed mindedness. Part of closed mindedness is seeing the world only in black and white and never accepting that a viewpoint other than your own may just have a ring of truth to it. There are closed minded people of faith, and there are closed minded people without faith.
Having faith is essentially pretending to have knowledge of something that you don't have. That's being close minded in regard to that issue. When it comes to the issue of supernatural gods existing, these people are close minded. They aren't open to new information.
I can name an infinite number of things that would cause me to believe in the existence of God. However, can a person of faith name one thing that will cause them to give up belief in God? Obviously none of these scientist or level-headed people you mention above are in doubt even with all the information they have.
