Why can't people accept that there is no evidence for religion?
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People need something to give them 'hope' in life. Without any forms of demanding religion, the entire human culture would be in a state of chaos with no 'moral rights'.
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My religion is right because I have no religion. No religion has empirical evidence or proof of it's claims (that's why it's called a religion), so none of them are right.
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Where most religious people think to see "proof" of God, an objective person will only see something that usually can be explained by smthg else. The point is that the average human is not much aware of modern science (like cutting edge cosmology, quantum physics, abiogenesis, and the like) and just ignore the many possibilities for other explanations alternative to "God". \n\nThere is no such thing as "scientific proof" of the existence of God. No matter what religious people say.\nWe don´t really need the "God theory" to explain things in this universe. They can be explained by more conventional means. \n\nThe problem is that science is just too young compared to culture and tradition. \nMankind, my friend, is still at its childhood, and it still loves fairytales when going to bed.
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there is no evidence or confirmation
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If you don't believe you don't believe.  It is OK.  Why should you believe in somehting of which there is no proof?  \n\nIn my personal opinion, there are only three reasons people become religious:\n\n1)  They are fearful.  Fearful of death, fearful of not knowing the purpose of their existence, fearful of losing everything that they value in this life (which you will, gauranteed).  Fear is a powerful motivator and when someone offers you a way to manage that fear through a belief system it can be tempting to accept.  There is no need to resort to philosophy, science or psyhcology.  There is no need to accept that there are rational and scientific explanations that we as humans simply don't know yet.   Just believe that someone's making it all right in the end and you're all set.\n\n2) They are seeking a path to redemption for past sins.  They are having difficulty coping with the consequences of some bad action they have taken in thier life, and or are trying to control some compulsive behavior that has caused hardship in their life.  Either they were in prison, got caught with a prostitue, or drank themselves out of job and their family, or simply told a horrible lie that they feel guilty about.  Religion offers instant redemption and rituals to help you ease your mind through repentance.  \n\n3)  They have a strong natural desire for community and companionship.  Having someplace to go every Sunday with likeminded people or having rituals to follow when someone dies, or having a language or framework to use when communicating your values with others can be very comforting.  If your family already subscribes to these beliefs you even may feel pressure to accept things that your logical mind tells you are impossible and&#92;or unlikely.\n\nYou can deal with these three situations through patience, meditation, compassion, seeking help from others, and community activism, or you can choose to believe in supernatural beings and mythology.  My personal opinion is that there is no easy way out of any problem so that when a christian says I can instantly have my sins forgiven or a Scientologist tells me that body thetans are causing my suffering, or some guru tells me that my Shakras just need alignments, I usually take a pass.
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The answer is:\n\ne) You have no supporting evidence for any of the above conclusions.
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There are a couple steps of atheism:  Mild atheism; where a person just doesn't believe in religion because there isn't any proof. If proof were offered, then they'd believe. Or perhaps they just think that there's too much to be known by people, which is technically called Agnostistism. \n\nThen there's true atheism, which denies the existance of everything non-tangable. When you die, you decay in the ground. Your soul disapears. And that's that.
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People claim religion is 'from God' because they are deluded.  They have no rational reason to believe a deity exists, but they believe it anyway.  If religious claims had any basis in reality then we could reasonably expect babies to grow up with one true religion, rather than almost invariably absorbing the religion of the family or culture they grow up in.
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I have to agree with you. I have argued with my mother in law on countless occasions about this. Everyone believes in something. I do believe there is a superior existence , I do not, however follow any specific religion. In any religion there is always some kind higher existence. There is no TRUE fact proven (in any religion) on what and or who is right. I find people tend to quote things from the bible but don't actually know what they're talking about. And to those who believe that everyone should have a faith, I do. I believe there is something, or someone who will show us our true religion, everyone, as a whole. I apologize if I have offended anyone. That was not my intention.
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People get comfort from believing there is a reason for existence, that it's not all accidental or the product of a statistical probability. \n\nLook at it this way: if you are a believer and you die and there is no God, what difference does it make.  If you are not a believer and you die and there is a God, BIG SURPRISE!
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HAHA I can see what your getting at. This isnt a battle that you can win. Neither can I. I'm christian but a relaxed one. People have their opinions and who am i to tell them different. I dont beleive everything I hear. I beleive things that i know however. And I dont know for sure that a god even exist. I guess thats the whole concept to a religious faith alone. People tend to take the bible TOO literal. Then things begin getting mixed up. I am a scientist as well, some things in the bible just dont make sense. But if you read a book that offered a way for you to live in a sunny nice beach, and youve lived in the projects all of your life...and all you had to do has follow the books teaching...would you take it? I'm sure you see what i'm getting at as well.
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Non-existence can never be proven.  Until evidence is presented for a things existence it's simply irrational to believe in it.
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Many scientists avoid the subject of religion and rather simply try to gather evidence, build models (hypotheses or theories), test them, keep the ones that succeed, throw out the ones that fail, rinse and repeat.\n\nAs one accumulates these evidence, it lends credence to the probability to the models (theories) being true.  This means that these models are consistent with what evidence is collected with respect to the past and that it may predict new kinds of evidence that may be found in the future.\n\nThe problem is that some people get into semantic word play with the word "theory" and think that demonstrating a flaw or a lack of explanation in the "theory" invalidates it totally making it false.  If you replace the word "theory" with model (which maybe scienstists should do), it reduces the ability to attack it.\n\nAnd, as for the "Big Bang", there are models which, if correct, say that the "Big Bang" was not necessarily the beginning.\n\nI think one problem people have with these "theories" is that they lack the experience, study, and knowledge of the evidence to appreciate their validity or not and so reject them simply out of hand because they are not consistent with their own belief system.\n\nHere's the problem.  If I say that the grass outside my window is green and you say "I don't believe you", that does not invalidate the fact that the grass outside my window is green.  It just means that you refuse to accept the evidence.  Your statement of disbelief does nothing to disprove the evidence.\n\nNow, given that the stories in Genesis are inconsistent with the evidence of the universe, you have a choice.  Accept them as allegorical and still find value in the teachings of the bible or whatever your religion might be. Or, you can see it as an attack on a literal interpretation of the bible.  But, these scientists didn't set out to attack the bible or religion.  They just set out to interpret the evidence and found that words in the bible didn't provide sufficient explanation to intepret the evidence and create consistent models.\n\nIt is only folks that think a word for word literal interpretation of the bible is required to be religious that find that science is an attack on religion.\n\nIt is possible to interpret the bible as guide for how to live one's life without ascribing to a word for word literal interpretation.  It just depends on your interpretation.
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Because those people are afraid that if you think about religion in a scientific manner then youll raise questions that cant be answered by religion.  \n\nA real person a faith shouldnt ask you to forget what you learned just because it might challenege their ideas.  Religion isnt perfect and neither is science.  They may or may not work together but as of right now we dont know the ultimate trusts about both subjects so its very hard to tell when they really do agree or disagree.\n\nLearn both sides and decide for yourself what is true. Don't let others make you think that blind faith in either is necessary or okay.
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I can't believe a faith based on a book that is flawed in many ways.  I can't believe in something there is no way of having real, tangable, physical, scientific proof of.  I can't believe in something that is based on the words of people that may well have had a delusional disorder.  I can't believe in something that contradicts it's self and leaves alot of things open it can't realistically explain.  Science is in the process of proving something else entirely and has more evidence than religion does on the matter.  Which should I believe?  I tend to lean to the logical side of it which leaves religion out.  Until someone can conclusivly, scientifically prove some of these things I will not believe.
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Strongly deny the existence of god. \nBelieve there are no supernatural things like supernatural miracles.\ngo to beliefnet.com\nit shows what different 'religions' believe.\nincluding atheist.
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no god, no heaven, and yes people just say that so that people wont fear death\n\nreason?\nnone of it has been scientifically proven\nreligion is a bunch of legends, stories (fictitious or extremely exaggerated); it mainly acted to prevent basic civilization from destroying itself\n\nnow that we're an advanced civilization, all religion is doing is hindering our scientific progress