Guys, I have a confession. I'm not a Atheist. I'm a Titteist. I worship The All Holy Titties
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Science and religion don't work together.
You say this as if religion and science are opposites and can't help prove the cause of the other. Religion (this is about Christianity so I'll use that) by itself cannot be taken seriously by a non-believer because there simply is not something to prove its existence besides a volume of books written between 2000 and 3500 years ago. I'm pretty sure that's the most common counter-argument as well, since many non-believers only hear Christians saying, "That's not true!", "I don't know.", and "If you want proof, read the Bible."
The only way to logically prove things in religion, especially the major difference in the age of the Earth, is through the use of science. For example, if you take the Big Bang, which marks the point that the universe began to expand, would it not be a Big Bang if a creator made light out of a non-existent environment only known to be dark? Perhaps this "explosion" did occur, and that time point marked the beginning of universal expansion.
What about proof of the Flood? I wrote a whole long post on it
here.
Religion also plays more of a conceptual and abstract understanding of why we want to know more about our environment, where we came from, what the future holds, and ultimately why we exist. Science can make jabs at these questions, but we cannot be absolutely true if a theory arises because no one can actually witness, measure, or document such things.
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