... Science or Religion? Anung mas papaniwalaan mo?

[Hanzo23]

I do not believe that God created the world within 6 days, nor do I believe that we came from Adam and a rib-woman, and was then doomed because the rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

I am a non-religious rationalist and I think that evolution is at the moment the most convincing model for the development and diversity of life. But if someone presents a model which is still more convincing, backed up with more convincing evidence and reasoning, I will be absolutely prepared to accept this as well.

Quotes regarding this topic from other rationalists:

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."
- Mark Twain

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
- Richard Dawkins

"Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind."
- John A. Hutchinson

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true. "
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
- Ben Franklin

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science," New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930

And to add, Eve was not the first wife of Adam, it was Lilith, who was later scrapped and religion labeled her as a demon. Talk about dirty little secrets.

[Puppet Heart]

Science all the way!

The only God I can admire is Einstein's and Spinoza's God, also known as Nature.