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by Lady Justice on June 7th, 2008

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How can scientists say there is no such thing as the after life when it is clearly stated within science that matter cannot either be created nor destroyed? I don't get it.

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  • by Captain Birdseye on June 7th, 2008

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    Scientists don't say that at all.

    They are merely incapable of providing a scientific basis on which to base the conclusion to be true.

    Many scientists, Newton and Einstein for example, believed in God.

    EDIT- Doubting Thomas, thanks for the feedback. I'm in the same boat as you buddy, I can't figure out how atheists can use science as a back up for their beliefs either. Atheism is as much a belief system as any religion, just as Christians use the Bible as their ultimate authority, atheists use science for the same purpose. If you ask scientists themselves what they believe, many believe in god, most know you can't prove one way or the other, and only a few are atheists. Atheists have no authority to use science to back up their beliefs, if they examined the scientific evidence, they would be agnostic. It's just a case of someone utilising any tool at their disposal to back up what they feel is right.

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    • Sorry I didn't mean to say that all scientists say this but I am talking about people who believe in science that say that there is no god and there is no after life. I am, by the way an atheist. The thing is that when they say this they really aren't thinking about what they are saying hence explaining why I am here on this day. I find it rather irritating that people claim they know the truth through their opinion. If that were to be true then a guy who believes the color purple is blue would be right because according to some people opinion is fact.

      Lady Justice

      by Lady Justice on June 7th, 2008

    • Atheism isn't a belief system. Think about the structure of the word. "A" means "not" and Theist is someone who believes in a deity. Being someone who doesn't believe in a god doesn't really have anything to do with science and is just a lack of belief, not a belief system. I think you may be talking about materialists. I also think that while you can't show evidence that there is no god, a lot of the claims made by religious texts disagree with physical evidence, which in science would mean that those hypotheses are actually falsified. Also, there really isn't any evidence of a god. Clearly there is no evidence suggesting that one doesn't exist but believing based on that would be similar to believing that unicorns once existed but are now extinct. There is no evidence to refute that claim but there is no reason to believe it either.

      Michael_J9663

      by Michael_J9663 on February 23rd, 2011

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