Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Forsythe
It's the fact that seing people making stupid decisions is painfull inside.
It's like seing someone bang a nail into their hand because they think it'l make them look good. You just can't help it.
People certainly don't need any help from religion in order to make stupid decisions, and being atheists doesn't save them from idiocy either. Sort of like how elitist condescension isn't automatically granted by atheism, but can also be employed by all manner of people.
People who make stupid decisions share only ONE feature: stupidity.
People who adopt a smug, patronizing attitude also share one feature: they're all pricks.
Strive for intelligence, open-mindedness, and
humility, no matter your creed, and you'll go much further in life than most people.
Originally posted by: Forsythe
To me as an amateur physicist (i'm not even that, but i think the same way), lack of proof, is somewhat proof for me to "know" something. Unless something is wrong that leads us to believe that there might be something wrong with that knowledge, it's sure.
I also change my mind quickly when confronted with facts.
Maybe you're using a different definition of "know" than I, but how can you claim to have "known" something if new evidence is capable of overturning it? IMHO, you never "knew" it at all, but simply made the best guess you could based on the currently available evidence, with the understanding that things could change in the future. In a way, scientists "know" less than anyone else, because they are willing to examine their assumptions for consistency, rather than assume they are solid and build on that with no further study along the way.