Quote Originally Posted by Lady Vulpix View Post
Ah, I see. Well, as much as it may hurt some people, it's impossible to get to understand absolutely everything, so there will always be things that are beyond our understanding. If they choose to believe that there's nothing to life other than the interaction of chemicals, that's still a belief, not something they can know for certain.

It makes sense to try to explain things with the tools we have at hand, and when researching it's very common to start off with as few variables as possible because the simpler the object of study is, the easier it is to analyze it. But just because you've chosen a set of aspects to begin your analysis, it doesn't mean that nothing else exists. Things you can't measure or fully comprehend can't be easily studied, but there's no logic in denying their existence just because you can't understand them.

So if anyone claims that logic says God/the afterlife/souls/anything doesn't exist, you can tell them that logic says nothing about that, and that it's just a belief like any other.
I agree I've always said that in a way science is rather faith based, because while science uses evidence and the scientific process to arrive at their conclusions, the bottom line is it takes a bit of faith to believe that nothing about their process is flawed in any way. When it comes to things that happened in the past, everything is a guess no matter how educated that guess is, for e sheer fact that since no one alive was actualy there to see it with their own eyes, you can't be 100% sure.

I believe that anything created by man is inherently flawed, and to believe in anything requires faith that you are right, since no one can be 100% sure of their beliefs being true.