How is it possible that someone can even say this?
There is no, I repeat no, empirical evidence that any religious book is based on reality and/or history. Therefore it can be called fiction just like any other piece of work not based on reality.
If someone thinks there is evidence then they do not understand empirical research and need further information.
Religion is purely based on peoples own imagination. Not that there is by default nothing wrong with it but it is pure imagination.
Many good reasons to believe are found as peoples depth of information decreases. Less knowledge=more religion in general.
More knowledge=less religion as people realize that there is no evidence supporting any statements in any religious book.
As for science being the state-of-affairs as of now, it is the only logical and responsible way of thinking. We know as much as we know at this moment and until we find a better way of explaning things that make sense and is supported with abbundand facts, we will use the latest way of explanation (theory).
Science is progressive and self-evaluative. Religion is passively dominant and never changes in general.
Therefore science is the way of developing all fronts and religion is there to fill the need of our combined primitive human psyche. After all how can we change so much in couple hundred years when we are developing for last 200k years in natures unfriendly enviroment where human kind did not understand most of its parts.
Not understanding=imagining own explanations.
First off dude you've completely missed the boat on what I'm saying never said the bible was based on evidence the bible is pure rhetoric fact.
Part 1 As far as evidence goes, the bible never was about imperical evidence that does not mean it's impossible for it to be right about shit even if it's cryptic. As even I said it's open for debate and does not take the place of fact.
Part 2 religion is religion the bible is not religion or vice versa there very separate, the bible is a cultural document that has stayed in it's current state for nearly 2000 years, and it's a staple in most of western society as a result. It's value is purely in it's ability to culturally unify over 2 billion people.
Part 3 It's a myth that science in the only way of thinking, which is a totally false. Science is has some very deep limits, that any educated person is aware of. Simply put you can't prove everything, as you can't see everything and since science is based on observation, you can only prove what you can see.
Aside from that science has a dependency on logic, which ironically humans are really really really inept with as proven by psychology.
Part 4 Science is progressive which is another serious problem, science does not judge whether or not it's current view is harmful to society, simply it is imperical and only holds to what is seen as objective and true at the time.
Anyhow you did nothing to disprove my main point which is you can't disprove logic with belief and you can't disprove
belief with logic. Very basic philosophy, it's people inability to understand this which makes me feel that science(really pseudo science) is quickly turning into a major religion.
