(08-17-2015, 07:57 AM)gstanford Wrote: You do realise that just about every war this planet has ever seen has been fuelled by religion?!
Religion isn't a force for good, it is a divider. It divides peoples in to the "us" (those who believe in whatever god/faith) and "them" (those who don't) and sets up conflict between them.
Face it, Gstan - we're ALL religious, including the atheists. Whether we believed in Ptolemy's "scientific" explanation of the solar system revolving about upon an increasing number of epicycles, or on Darwin's theory of evolution, etc.. we ALL take whatever we believe rather (and deeply) religiously. Some atheists take it so far that they are literally the ones to initiate acts of intolerance and verbal assaults upon the believers in some traditional religions. It's pretty much human nature, after all. No matter how you try to get us to look away from the eggs that you're hiding in your own nest, we all know that you, just like us, are ALL the same, by human nature (big-bang and evolution theory "religious", at least evidenced by your present dogmatism of your own atheist beliefs).
Ok with science that the big bang theory requires that fundamental scientific laws do not exist for the first few minutes, but not ok for the creator to defy these laws... 