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Being raised in a religious home is nothing short of indoctrination.
You are stating here that if a parent shares his or her beliefs with his or her children, then that child has been indoctrinated. You seem to be underestimating the children, who are perfectly capable of making their own decisions as they grow. For example, parents "indoctrinate" their children into believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. As children grow, they shed these beliefs because their observations in the real world do not square with what their parents have taught them.
Additionally, by your logic,
all children are indoctrinated. After all, telling your children that "killing is wrong," and "you shouldn't tear your sisters hair out," and "If strange men offer you candy, don't accept it, and call for help!" is a sort of indoctrination. After all, they are making fact statements about ultimate reality (what is wrong and right, what should not be done, what we should believe). If they choose to share their parents' beliefs, that is their responsibility. Please don't brush Christianity away with such fragile logic. I feel like it's an insult to intellectualism.
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Science wasn't created by man. It existed before humanity did.
By what logic do you make that assertion? The statement in itself is philosophical and just as wishy-washy as "God created the universe in seven days."
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The theory of evolution has been proven true, as we've seen it in various species around the world
You are correct.
MICRO-EVOLUTION, the evolution that occurs when species change, evolve, and improve, has been documented multiple times. However, we have never once documented a single case of a species (for example, apes) changing into another, distinctly separate species.
Claiming that macro-evolution is true because micro-evolution is true is like claiming that because Ernest Hemingway was a drunkard, every famous writer indulges in drink. You're taking a single, specific observation and applying it to everything.
Additionally, the Theory of Evolution hinges upon the great question of HOW IT ALL STARTED. Scientists themselves admit that, although they can trace the evolution of the world back to a microsecond before the world "began," they have no idea what "set off" the reaction that set into motion the beginning of the universe. They have theorized that (and I simplify this greatly) particles formed (out of the vast nothingness) and collided (in the vast nothingness) and exploded (into the vast nothingness) to create
EVERYTHING.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to forgive me for saying that idea seems even more preposterous to me than the idea of an omnipotent creator setting everything in motion. In addition, the logistics of the evolution of the first complex organism are hilarious to me.
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Humanity will evolve someday, too. Although I have very little doubts in my mind religious people will claim its some sort of "gift from God", instead of seeing it for what it really is.
This statement is philosophical in nature (it cannot be scientifically proven) and is based just as much on blind faith as the beliefs of the average Christian, (which should not be; Christianity was never meant to be based on BLIND faith. There's a difference between jumping off a cliff and believing that God will catch you and taking a deep breath before stepping onto a rickety bridge.
Everyone operates in this world by faith. You believe when you sit down that your chair will hold your weight, for example.
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Religious people are going to be extremely angry when Stephen Hawking finishes his Theory of Everything. It will, as a side effect, probably disprove Gods existence.
Stephen Hawking is an eminently intelligent and respectable man. However, if you look just a little ways back, he's eaten his own words. First, his theories allowed for a creator, but then he "discovered" that a creator was unlikely. "Science" though it may be, he has proven himself wrong once.
I apologize if I seem a little brusque. I don't claim to own even a single drop in the sea of knowledge related to these fields (there's far too much to know), but I just find it amusing that people seem intent to take the moral high ground when they, themselves, are making ridiculous philosophical assumptions without proper knowledge of their own field.
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