Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumScience gets the job done; religion makes excuses. - PZ Myers
What has occurred over the course of the last few centuries is a growing (but by no means universal or certain) recognition that science gets the job done, while religion makes excuses.
Sometimes they are very pretty excuses that capture the imagination of the public, but ultimately, when you want to win a war or heal a dying child or get rich from a discovery or explore Antarctica [or space], you turn to science and reason, or you fail.
- PZ Myers, biology professor
MayReasonRule
(4,048 posts)May reason rule!
RussBLib
(10,464 posts)...or just rely on God to keep you safe, like so many have done. I wonder how many of those are dead from COVID?
Thousands of examples. It's a good thought experiment. The religious response is practically always, just pray, just pray harder.
Nothing fails like prayer.