What scientific discoveries greatly weakened religion and the case of God ?
What scientific discoveries greatly weakened religion and the case of God ?
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Heliocentric model.
Cosmic distance and time. Light speed as a limit.
The geological age of the Earth.
Dinosaurs.
Evolutionary theory.
Continental drift.
The periodic table of the elements.
Quantum theory, including wave-particle duality.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Black holes.
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It's interesting, some theists would just say "that's how God built the universe" and be satisfied with that.
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The halfway sensible ones would. But the ones that thing religious texts are magic books would burn the former as heretics if they were allowed to do so.
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Well sure. There are religious people who want to know how the world works. After all, if there is a creator/God then one of the ways that being communicated with us for certain is the universe we live in.
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Thats me over 15 years ago. Now I'm staunch atheist.
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You should read the Quran. Or not.
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What does the Quran say about black holes?
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Never read the Quran, but had a coworker who claimed the quran explains a ton of science, including recent science. She also believed in creationism and therefore also thought evolution was bs, so I didn't put much basis into her words.
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