DiamondGooner wrote:so your basically saying because religion is made up its unfair to hold it to realistic standards.
That's not what i'm saying at all. I'm saying you're welcome to investigate religion with the scientific method but you won't find anything. There is no evidence to suggest God exists according to science. As simple as that. Therefore, technically God does not exist according to science.
That's why religion isn't based on science. Religion or any other belief system is, by my definition, belief in something despite the lack of scientific evidence. If science could prove it, by that definition it wouldn't be religion anymore.
DiamondGooner wrote:when people kill over religion your damn right its going to be put under the microscope and held to the same standards as everything else.
Did i ever say you shouldn't criticize religion?
Science doesn't disprove God to extremists, therefore its findings won't have an impact on their beliefs. The only way you can stop them is by ridiculing them and waging war against them.
DiamondGooner wrote:Also yes, there is plenty of scientific evidence to say that being a somewhat moral human being is "the right way", if you commit random murders you go insane, that's how you know your not supposed to do it for no reason, also its against social order which is natures tribal laws, this is why Lions, Wolves etc aren't just random nutters.
First off, do you have any evidence that people go insane as they commit random murders? This is a very flawed argument. There's plenty of nutcases that are serial killers but they were already crazy beforehand. Killing people isn't the cause of their mental problems, it's just a symptom. Even if you were right, this is only an argument that it's evolutionary beneficial for people to "act" moral. You still haven't given me a reason why a human being should strive to be "good" apart from a personal belief system.