"Can living according to the commonly accepted scientific principles improve your quality of life? Has science made advances to improve your quality of life?" Well, seeing as I'm typing on the internet, and not afraid of polio, have no annoying little kids thanx to birth control, able to watch movies on DVD on my plasma flat screen home theater, got rich trading tech stocks back in the bubble days instead of milking cows and plowing fields or coal mining... yeah, I'd say science might have improved my quality of life just a bit.
Before direct experience, everything is a theory. Love, sex, marriage, having children, financial success, disease, trading, music, art, etc. all can be understood on a theoretical level before direct experience, but they remain theory until direct experience. If you want to call the purely intellectual ideas and concepts prior to the practice of faith in God a theory, fine by me. The proof of the theory of God comes through the practice of faith, a practice that you failed to complete properly. Had you been scientific with the practice of faith, and made a decision to accept faith in God over your doubting intellect you would have perhaps reached the conclusion and experiences that the majority who practice faith properly do. You are a failed theist on a mission to prove that your failure was not your own, but the failure of someone else.
Are the increases in mental illness, the use of prescription drugs to combat depression, etc., the level of unhealthy obesity in America etc. due to science....or religion? We have improved the quality of material life, but what has science done to improve the quality of man's inner spiritual life?
Clearly Tripack, you havent the FAINTEST clue where the burden of proof lies do you? People dont have to prove negatives. I am no more required to prove that god does NOT exist then you are required to prove that I am NOT god. Can you prove ZEUS does NOT exist? Can you prove that I am NOT god? No you cant. Which is why the question is so silly. It shifts the burden of proof to the wrong person. Asking someone to prove something DOESNT exist is something only very inexperienced debators try to pull. Sorry...doesnt work. If you assert gods existence then YOU must prove he exists. No one has to prove that he doesnt. Pretty basic stuff. peace axeman
Exactly which biblical principles did you live that didn't improve your life or in other words made your life worse? If a book teaches principles then by living those principles, you should be able to determine for yourself whether that book is good or bad by evaluating your life before you started living those principles, and then after you started living those principles.
science has enabled man to improve the quality of his inner spiritual life by providing man THE TIME to work on his spiritual side. because of science and progress, the common man, no longer has to stress out and fight for food ( an example ). almost everyone now has access to spiritual information, instead of just the scribes and elites as in the past due to science. science gives us FREE TIME to study spiritual pursuits that were once only the domain of the elite. science allow us to be educated so that we can CHOOSE the spiritual path instead of being forced fed dogma. science enables man to feed his soul instead of being obsessed with feeding his body. best, surfer
Ahhh... I see 777 is back with his hocus pocus drivel. Still believe your the only guy in the world who can correctly communicate with god via faith? LMAO. You simply make no sense. Weve been through this many times. You BELIEVE you have found god through your magical powers of FAITH, and yet have NO WAY to prove that any of this nonsense exists outside of your own mind. It is for that reason that I frankly dont give a crap about what I can only assume is your imagination. PS. If your still hearing voices in your head, please see a shrink. And if your god voices tell you to shoot people, at least consider that maybe its not god after all peace axeman
Ummmmm... how about believing that your are born a piece of shit sinner??? Do you think that could be psychologically harmful to a child? Amazes me how clueless these theists are. Starting out in the world with a NEGATIVE self worth ( a sinner ) is NOT a good thing. Do I need to point out the fact AGAIN, that the bible supports slavery? Ill stop now while im ahead. Great book there. Angry gods killing innocent babies with wild animals because he is angry at some OTHER dude. Brilliant reasoning! Yeah.... lots of great teachings in there. Whatever. peace axeman
axeman, a wager---- i bet you $50.00 that within 20 years you become a theist of some sort. what do you say ?? surfer