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Originally Posted by PsyOps  Their effects have been observed from billions of light years away. Call me a pessimist but how do you prove “observed” effects from billions of light years away? Either way, I’m not disputing their existence anymore than I am disputing the existence of God. I’m simply saying, shy of concrete physical proof, both require a certain level of faith to believe they exist. |
Correct, one requires faith in the intervention of a magical occurrence and the other requires faith in the physical laws that have been observed over centuries. The understanding of the latter has been wrong before but refined using the scientific method; the best that the former can manage when faced with the unanswerable is "we can't know God's will."
Relying on magic means that no one religion has anything more concrete than any other, unless you count numbers of followers, so which is the right one? The one that an individual chooses for him- or herself. A personal choice that can't be foisted onto another nor can it be taught on an equal basis as science.