God's killing our critical sense

Rating: 5/10 (30 January 2009)

The religious content of this movie hints that even when things are going real bad, there might still be a God, and he/she might help us get out of it. Dogmas like that ruins peoples critical sense, and is very irrespective of the actual children that die of hunger each day. For instance the recent plane crash where everybody survived and people thanked God for the seemingly miraculous landing, but where was God when all the other fatal plane crashes in history occurred?
1) The existence of God is a theory that cannot be falsified. This makes it useless as a scientific theory. Why? Because that's how science works. Propose a falsifiable theory. Make a prediction based on the theory. See if experimental evidence matches the theory, or if the theory is falsified.
This does not make the belief in the existence of God pointless as a motivating or inspirational factor for scientists. It just makes it pointless as an explanatory mechanism.
2) No, engineers study nature to see how to better manufacture things. Scientists study nature to determine the nature of things, and to provide explanatory reasons as to why things are the way they are. The minute you allow the existence of God as an explanatory mechanism, all other science goes out the window.
e.g. Why do things fall? Cause God wants them to.
3) Religious centers like churches and mosques specializes in arguments from their side of the discussion, but I assure you, for every religious argument there is an equal counter-argument. The goal of Science is to become as sure as we can about things, the goal of religion is to confuse people into a mist of claims with no real criticism. Religion can easily turn into fanaticism, but it's just as easy to teach people that not many things are very definite. For instance, I can claim I am the reborn Jesus, and you can't easily counter that. It's something I learned at school, which helped me develop some healthy skepticism.