Friday, May 23, 2014

Does Science Disprove God?

As science continues to solve mysteries of the universe, many have come to question whether science and religion can coexist. Personally, I say no. The incompatibilities and impossibilities of science and religion to both be correct, disprove the existence of God (at least the God in which the majority of the population believe to exist). But this God is imperative to define for this argument, because the God I am refuting is not an incomprehensible spiritual entity that created everything. But this argument is that science completely disproves the personal, relational, creator of the universe, who has loving care for the human species in particular. The evidence is simply nonexistent.

1. There is no evidence for a God. None. Nada. Nill. Zilch. Zero. Empirically, quantifiably, in any measurable way that matters. In fact, all of the evidence that has been gathered regarding existence, human beings, and the cosmos, points to there being no need for a God at all.

2. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Humans have been around for roughly 100,000 years. This means that if the age of the universe were shrunk down to one calendar year, humans would have only been around for the last couple minutes of the entire year! God really designed all of this for a relationship with humans? And not to mention the blatant incompatibilities this fact has with the monotheist holy books.

3. 99.9% of all species that have ever lived on Earth have gone extinct. Some of the most stubborn and hard-willed species survived and evolved, but the probability that our advanced primate species is special and has a divine connection with God is ignorant and arrogant.

4. Evolution has explained how humans came to exist, without a need for an all-powerful creator. Simply because many religions have adopted this proven fact as part of their beliefs, doesn't mean that it is compatible with what the religion preaches. This is just one of the numerous hypocrisies of religion.

5. Religion continues to adopt scientific beliefs, yet science has not once adopted a religious belief and used it as their own. Religion claims to know the answers to everything and they preach as if they do, yet they change some of their most fundamental teachings so that they adhere to new scientific findings. For example, Christianity has accepted evolution as factual truth but now they claim that it was still God's plan, completely contradictory of the Old Testament. Most Christians also accept the Big Bang as being the creation of the universe. A complete foreign idea to religion until science came along, yet now religion just claims that that was God's plan too.

6. Religious people have historically imprisoned, exiled, tortured, and murdered scientific thinking that was correct, simply because it did not coincide with religious teachings. Religion had to evolve to survive in modern day, but the problem is that they still hold on to ancient, outdated teachings such as homosexuality being immoral, opposition to stem-cell research, and rampant racism and sexism among religions.

7. Think about our place in the universe. We are one species among millions and millions that have once lived on our planet. Our planet Earth is the only inhabitable planet known in our solar system yet it is only one solar system among hundreds of millions in our galaxy. Think about that for a second; hundreds of millions of solar systems in our single galaxy, the Milky Way. Our one galaxy is only one among hundreds of BILLIONS that known to us from our tiny planet. The amount of arrogance needed to know this as fact and still think God did everything as a plan for us is simply absurd.

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