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Ignorant and Stubborn People Bug Me

Mon Aug 21, 2006, 4:03 PM
Yes, they do. While I realize I am naturally stubborn, and from time to time is ignorant to something, as well, that is not why I said that.

It's my grandmother who I am complaining about. Well, to start off, she is Christain who was born and raised Catholic. So, I was telling her about what I learned in Physics today. ^^; I should have talked about something else, but I like science and couldn't really help it. So, I had to catch her up on the definition of science and hypothesis in order to understand what I was going to say. Well, science is something that is testable. If it can't be proven true or false, it's not science. Hypothesis is something that is simply made up to answer a question; later it's experimented on and all that jazz. So, what we learned was the start of the universe. There are 3 choices, and everyone knows them.


1-The universe was made by God.

Well, this is what science says and that the public schools are allowed to teach. God is not part of the universe or not a detectable source. Well, since science can't get any information other than what the Bible says (written by men, might I add), God can not be proven nor disproven. It's non-scientific.

2-The Big Bang.

Actually, there is quite a bit of proof saying that the big bang could have easily happened by how the different solar system move, how the universe evolves, and even particles that are left over from something like the big bang.

3- Static Universe.

This means it stays exactly the same. This has been proven false by all the evidence that exists, which just so happens to support the big bang.


Anyways, my grandmother got angered by the thought of the big bang and says, "There is no evidence supporting the big bang. The school's teach this fool's theory because they are unaccepting to the idea of God." This is bull. My teacher supports the big bang who is a Christain himself and helps with the Bible Club at our school. How hard is it to accepting that possibly you're both right? Maybe God was the source of power to the big bang. It's just science. While many in the past have tried to prove and disprove God, all have been unsuccessful. Scientists have now given up on testing the existance of God. So, by something that can explain your every day life fact by fact which has been proven true again and again, once they say something like this, christains get crazy. Jeez, it's not that hard to imagine that maybe that is what happened. It's not like it says in the Bible how God made Earth and the rest of the universe. It says what he made and how long it took him. Also, saying what he made Adam and Eve from is not saying how at all. That's like having the ingrediants to a cake without the instructions; you can't just put them together and a cake is there, something needs to be done.

Now that I am talking about this, I will brief everyone on my personal beliefs. I believe that every religion that has ever existed is just a bit right. Some of it may be false, or simply exaggerated, but there is truth in there somewhere. When you take all the truth from the religions we know of (may be more made in the future) and put it together, we're just a little bit closer to understanding what really happens after death and before life. Now, athiesm are those who believe we are here, there is nothing before and after life, just that we die and that's it, which is an obvious exception to this since they believe in nothing religious. But, you get my point that I believe we will never truly know unless we guess right or die.

So, yeah, I'm done ranting now.

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:iconravenbell:
I think some people are convinced that science is against religion and therefore science is Bad. Their understanding of religion doesn't allow them to consider that perhaps both sides are right.
My gran's a bit like that. My mum's doing an OU course, and she sends all her esseys to my gran for her to proof read. If there's anything in the essey that goes against her beliefs, she just crosses them out and tells my mum not to use them, even though my mum is supposed to look at all aspects and opinions on whatever she's studying.

I'm Christian, but I love science and have no problems incorporating the two. When I was first taught about the big bang, I asked my mum how that could be true. She asked me if there was anything to say that God hadn't created the bigbang.
I agree with you on the little bits of rightness. I say I'm Christian, because that's how I was brought up, but since most one-God religions are pretty much the same in their key beliefs, I mix and match a bit. I take the bible with a pinch of salt (as you said, it was written by humans). You can't take the bible literally, it's not possible. In the very first book, you have two different accounts of the creation, the seven days thing and Adam and Eve and the garden of Eden.

I like your cake idea. I might steal it if the subject ever comes up in RS.
:iconhikari-sora1:
there's a bubble theory too of how the world was made. o.o i remember on our last day of school, our science teach was telling us about all the theories. he then asked us to write down how we think the world started.^^

went with the bubbles and i went with teh big bang. of course she was only playing around. she said the liked the idea of being born from a bubble. o.o

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:iconnature-is-calling:
It just bugs me, is all. I guess what really turns people's back on science would be cloning and making "golems." I can understand that because it does seem like people are trying to play God. And there is also the big controversy with the evolution theory. The only reason it is still here is because it has yet to be proven false. Once we do so, the idea is out the door. Yet, it's not fact, either. We just have evidence that it is a possiblity, not fact, and I think that is what most people don't understand.

Exactly. Besides, it's human nature to exaggerate as well as understate, so it's hard to tell if it is fact all the way through.

Thank you. And you can use the simile whenever you like. I picked it up from a teacher I had back in middle school, anyways.

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:iconnature-is-calling:
being born... from a bubble?:O_o:
I don't think I've heard that one before....

The closest I can think of is living particles in water that evolved into creatures, in result, all the living things there are now.

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Being open-minded is good, but so is staying loyal to what you believe.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
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:iconravenbell:
yeah, it is very annoying. And it's not like the evolution theory disproves God, it just rubs against the ideas people used to have.

Thanks for the simile. One of my school friends is very anti-religion, so I'll have fun using it in my next argument with her...:plotting:
:iconhikari-sora1:
lol =P

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:iconnature-is-calling:
Your welcome. Tell me how it goes when you use it. ^^

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Being open-minded is good, but so is staying loyal to what you believe.

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