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Originally Posted by reddeath26
On this point you seem to be confusing scientism for atheism. While the two can coexist within a person's system of knowledge, this does not need to be so.
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They can coexist, but they are
not mutually exclusive, and many atheists believe in science as the "last word" on things, as well as the adamant belief that there is NO god. My brand of atheism happens to be one of them. It doesn't make it wrong or not a religion. It's just not organized or mass marketed.
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Originally Posted by quasievilgenius
Have you ever witnessed the variation in gravity between the Earth, the Moon, and Jupiter? No, you take it on FAITH that science isn't lying to you. Have you ever actually SEEN a DNA strand? Doubtful, because it requires incredibly powerful electron microscopes to even begin to get to that level of tangible observability. For that matter, have you ever seen the inner workings of the human body in regards to its biological functions of food digestion, respiration, or the oxygen cycles of blood in the human body, I mean really SEEN them? No, but you accept them as true because science says they are, and science claims to have the proof. For that matter can you even prove that people have walked on the moon? No, but you accept it on faith because there's video evidence of it, and it's taught in history class.
All of these things require a degree of faith to believe. If we were limited to belief only in what we ourselves can prove, then we are able to believe in NOTHING apart from our own personal existence, because nothing else CAN be proven. Your senses can be tricked, your brain, for all its complexity, can be tricked (that's how painkillers work, by tricking your brain into releasing dopamine.)
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^ If his post hadn't come after my previous one, I would have edited in there, but basically this. This is faith. A different kind of faith, but faith nonetheless.