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[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Fundamentally isn't any religious belief in an omnipotent/world creating god creationist? I think the evidence trying to "prove" intelligent design is pretty weak, but the thing about essentially all religious belief is that its not exactly falsifiable. The argument can basically be as simple as "yes that evolved but god created everything in the world so it would evolve that way" or "no it didn't evolve, god created the world 5000 years ago, he just also made stuff that to any observer would appear older. he did that to intentionally obfuscate the truth so you must have faith"

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Fundamentally isn't any religious belief in an omnipotent/world creating god creationist?

Oh yeah. This isn't a problem unique to Christianity.

but the thing about essentially all religious belief is that its not exactly falsifiable

I think the function of a belief system is to lessen fear in scary, doubtfull, uncertain, painfull situations. That's when an unfalsifiable happy ending brings comfort.

It's just that many of them were invented quite a while ago, and some things that used to be unknown and scary then, are now better understood or obsolete. No point in engaging in makebelief for those.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it seems like for a lot of people they either have to believe all of it or none of it

[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I notice the same. A sad observation in my opinion.