studymon
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You've forgotten to ask the second big question to this 'watchmaker argument'...if the watch was made by the watchmaker, and the 'something' was made by God...then who made God???
It is true that science can not explain everything (well at least not now)...but it seems that religion can not explain even more...
To believers God seems to be the answer to everything. Most tend to accept this, at most times forgetting to question: is it?
However, i believe that a man feels greater happiness and content when he believes in a greater being...i guess you could say that it is a kind of a dependency that he adopts through religion.
He can not live without it, and it can not live without him...
I speak this mainly on the basis of the existence of an 'after-life' (i.e. heaven) for religion...for us, atheists, death is merely a physical thing...once we die, we decay...the end.
However, for people with religions, they see death as just another beginning to life, i guess you could say: a spiritual life followed by a spiritual death.
In that sense, religion does allow one to maintain a positive view upon death for it does not scare them.
However, i believe that religion fails when it tries to limit people's thinkings such as in the theory of evolution. It seems quite absurd as to how religion argues that the universe was created in such a short period of time.
Moreover, it seems quite absurd that religion portrays God as a man; for women, they should be asking: 'why should a perfect being be a man? And not a woman?' It seems quite sexist. Furthermore, why should God be perfect and still be a human being; perfection can not come out from imperfection. Now that is a contradiction...
Other than that, i sit on the fence when it comes to religion.
It is true that science can not explain everything (well at least not now)...but it seems that religion can not explain even more...
To believers God seems to be the answer to everything. Most tend to accept this, at most times forgetting to question: is it?
However, i believe that a man feels greater happiness and content when he believes in a greater being...i guess you could say that it is a kind of a dependency that he adopts through religion.
He can not live without it, and it can not live without him...
I speak this mainly on the basis of the existence of an 'after-life' (i.e. heaven) for religion...for us, atheists, death is merely a physical thing...once we die, we decay...the end.
However, for people with religions, they see death as just another beginning to life, i guess you could say: a spiritual life followed by a spiritual death.
In that sense, religion does allow one to maintain a positive view upon death for it does not scare them.
However, i believe that religion fails when it tries to limit people's thinkings such as in the theory of evolution. It seems quite absurd as to how religion argues that the universe was created in such a short period of time.
Moreover, it seems quite absurd that religion portrays God as a man; for women, they should be asking: 'why should a perfect being be a man? And not a woman?' It seems quite sexist. Furthermore, why should God be perfect and still be a human being; perfection can not come out from imperfection. Now that is a contradiction...
Other than that, i sit on the fence when it comes to religion.