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Me: Well, science proves things right.

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Josh R: Well since you are arguing semantics I thought I would chime in. Science proves nothing, it only attempts to explain things. I am willing to bet most of it is right, but it is also mostly theory.

Even such a well accepted concept as gravity (larger forces attracting smaller ones), has been explained by others as larger forces pushing on other ones. There is no way to prove one or the other, only observe the effects and draw up theories.

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Ah, yes, but only the elegant theories are accepted. The ones that keep having to bend over backwards to meet new theories are eventually rejected.

Newtonian physics is a lot of theory, but since it works, since experiments constantly fit in with what he was saying, it's common place knowledge.

When you think about it, each religion contains many different theories. Theory of reincarnation, etc.

The problem is that they tend to be bundled in one package. That would be like taking on the theory of evolution, but being told that once you accept that theory, you have to accept the theory of natural selection, the big bang, and if you reject them all or any individual aspect, theres a theory that states you will go to hell for it.

At some point, and I'm too lazy to look through the old testament, someone in history, some dude in a cave, came up with the theory that having faith in God (believing in another theory), will allow you to go to heaven.

This must be old, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the fundamental properties of Judaism?

When I look at the bible, I theorize that it probably took thousands of years to complete from start to finish, and now I understand that both the Christian and Muslim religions have probably tacked on all of their theories to the original theory of faith.

That's a very good question to mull over. If God did ever clearly speak to these writers, at one point did he say, "Faith or hell" and what's been added/edited/deleted since?