The Life of Me

(First of all, I'm sorry I'm bombarding you with deep posts! I'll try to post some random ones soon... I guess I'm just feeling really "Make the World a Better Place"-y lately...)

I suppose this is more like "Science and Reason" than "Science and Faith," but the latter sounds so much cooler.

A lot of scientists are aethiests. Not all, but a good amount. Is there some reason for this? Yeah. For a lot of the un-believing scientists, it's because there is no evidence of God, or of souls, or anything of the sort. I beg to differ. Or, at least, I have a question: What is your definition of "evidence"? What if my friend had stage 4 cancer. S/he is dying. S/he is unconscious, and cannot be healed by medicine or science. Then, one day, s/he wakes up, and is completely healed. Explain that to me. "Well, most likely an enzyme or something that we haven't discovered yet kicked in and saved him/her." Yeah, that's reasonable, I suppose. But have you any "evidence" of said enzyme's existence? No? Then your answer is pretty much useless.

It makes absolutely no sense to say that if there's no "evidence" of a thing's existence, it doesn't exist. What about love? You can't put love in a test tube. You can't look at love's cells through a microscope. Sure, you can use some snazzy machine to look at the brain and find signals of some weird body-thing that is like love (I don't know any of the words for these things, but I know what I'm referring to, and I'm hoping you do, but I kind of suck at explaining things sometimes...), but you cannot prove the existence of love. So there's no such thing as love. Or anger. Or happiness. Or boredom. Or virtue. Or morals. Or forgiveness. Or sorrow. Or fear. None of these exist. You're saying that there's no such thing as emotion at all, or thoughts. Really? That's what you're going with? So, this whole homosexual marriage issue, you're saying that the pro-homosexuals have no argument? Then why was the verdict in their favor? I'm sure some of the non-believer scientists voted in favor of them, but why? They don't believe in love, so why would they agree that Christians are "preventing love?" Is it because Christians believe in a God who "doesn't exist?"

I hate to break it to you, folks, but science is not omniscient. ("Omniscient" means all-knowing, if you weren't aware) There is truth outside of science. Scientism is the belief that there is no truth outside of what science can discover. Unfortunately, this belief is false. It's impossible not to at least suspect that the argument that "if there's no evidence, it doesn't exist" is false. There is no evidence that that statement is true.

-Sue Donimm