i take the role of agnostic scientist....
if everything is energy (including, ultimately, matter - which is essentially built of particles of material built from energy) - where did the energy come from in the first place...
science - it's always been there. okay...how? never come across a theory that doesn't still leave the question - "yes, but how did
that get there?"
religion - god made it. erm, how can you prove it? answer: "you can't - god is unknowable.."
Deoxyribonucleic Acid, for example... sounds impressive, right? But have you ever seen what happens if you put something in acid? It dissolves! If we had all this acid in our cells, we'd all dissolve! So much for the Theory of Evolution, Check MATE!
numpty - basic scientific study will show that the majority of conditions in the body are acidic due, for example, to the incidence of carbon dioxide, an acidic gas, or digestive fluids, in our body. check the pH of spit, or stomach contents, or blood
Reilgion is fine, but what difference is there between them? If there are so many different versions, and people believe that other people's religions are "made up", doesn't that go to say every religion is just made up?
ever looked at each of the "major" religions? how many things do they have in common? more than any of them will care to admit. organised religion evolves, all be it very slowly (in our lifetime, or several generations, but not on the grand scale of time) - it borrows things from past religions and contemporary religions and presents them as their own. look at the way that "modern" christianity has evolved from the monotheism of the ancients. there were other monotheist religions before christianity - it just became the "in" religion. Rome took up the mantle of christianity, imposed religious festivals that just "happened" to be on about the same date as similar festivals thus converting the plebian masses without them really being too bothered - most romans were a pretty pragmatic bunch more interested with their day-to-day survival and avoiding the eye of the procurators and guard than appeasing the "old gods".....
so essentially religions are made up - but where do these ideas come from and why? is it just some nutter who appears one day and says "I am the son of god, follow me" and everyone says "Hell, yeah, that's a great idea!" or is there more to it?
as far as christianity goes, we will never know truly. the earliest "bible" which really just means book, was a collection of essays on what was beleived to be the creation of the earth, as far as the understanding of humans could derive at that point in time, plus what equates to a "how did i get here?" family and local history, and meanderings along the way. the version we know now incorporated the "new testament" a collection of writing of the followers of the new religion of christianity.
however when Rome took up the cause of christianity, they decided to use it as a means of population control. how good would it be if not just the emperor but some far superior being had your entire afterlife in the palm of your hand and you had to follow a certain set of rules to save yourself?
who wrote the rules? well, who wrote the book? or rather who edited the book.....when the bible was collated it took vast a swathe of writings and brought together
some of them - the ones that caried the most convenieant message.....as few of the population could read, the priests could control what message was sent out, and when.....and who controlled the priests? the emperor. what a great system.
king james did the same when he "translated" the bible for the people.....comparing some of the latin or greek texts shows some vast differences in the meanings of the phraseology. again, change for control.
and a method that was still used by catholisism for years.....it being only very recently that mass was allowed to be held in english. although many more people could read - how many people could speak or read in latin ?
