Originally Posted by
unseen wombat
Secondly, in some things you're right. I don't deny that I'm glad that at some point people started saying hey, demons don't cause disease, germs and viruses do, and there's something we can actually do about it. That's great that we have drugs and surgeries instead of rituals. In other things however, scientists scale the cliffs of ignorance, and finally reach the summit and enlightenment, only to find a bunch of religious leaders who have been sitting there for centuries. (I forget where I heard that quote, but it's not mine). For example, a small, and maybe a weak example, granted:
In the beginning... God said, "let there be light," and there was light.
For years people scoffed at this. "How can there be light with no stars to create it?" Yet, from wikipedia's article on the big bang, "A similar process happened at about 1 second for electrons and positrons. After these annihilations, the remaining protons, neutrons and electrons were no longer moving relativistically and the energy density of the universe was dominated by photons (with a minor contribution from neutrinos)."
Yes, photons. And there was light.
I'm sure there are better examples, but that was the first one that popped into my head.
Just don't be so quick to dismiss everything you don't understand as superstitious nonsense. No, you don't know there is no such thing as a soul. Just because a belief is old, doesn't mean automatically that it's wrong.