I'm not sure... but this post makes really little sense? After scientific inquiry happened, specially in correct sciences (like physics)... doesn't that give you the basis for further exploration? Can you imagine that peer revieuwed scientific studies that produce a basis for theory that produces a lot of data that apperently is "correct" and can't be "disproven" needs to be reviewed over and over and over again ... That George Stephenson before he build his steam engine had to prove how steam works before he could apply it? That kwantum physicists had to re-evaluate the entire field of physics that it was based on? When people say that we are standing on the shoulders of giants, it means that our previous generations did a lot of the fieldwork, so we as a new generation can use it. And even in science, old ideas can be disproven or found to have certain exceptions, and then the theory changes. Scientific toppics that are not fleshed out enough are in constant flow, there is constant debate about these things because scientists want to find the "truth".
And this part: Quite foolish to keep spouting the "oh that's not real" crap when you're not even going to take a look at it, instead rely on the stuff people in the past wrote.
Isn't the basis of most religious dogmatic believe some idea someone in the past wrote down? Non factual stories and folklore, glorified by some human pschological believe mechanism and sold as absolute truth without annyone willing to actually investigate these things in a scientific way because old texts already show you how things are?
And altough I take an agnostic position and say that you can't have 100% certaintity if something is happening that we today would call "supernatural". What we can look at, is all the claims of people that say "this is supernatural". Once this claim is made, people with old scientific texts can look at the phenomena that is deemed "supernatural", use modern technology and find out if the claim is "true" or "not". And till today (for as far as I'm aware) non-supernatural believes have been proven to be the truth. It's only wishfull people that seem to keep faith even tough rationality, logic and facts have proven the believes wrong.
And this idea about religions that you harbor: "Even if it doesn't exist, so long as they're peaceful unlike islam...it should be fine"
Shows' not only an extreme bias towards one religion... it also shows a total lack of looking into what "believes" do with people. What outcomes they produce if they happen in larger groups. These can be ideas of a supernatural nature but also political believes. A believe that is shared by a large amount of people, does have outcomes that can be negative. Even outside of the world of Islam. Just look at christianity and how they regard people that have feelings for the same sex, and what outcomes that has produced over the years? Or dogmatic believes about the human body that was made by god? Outcasting and setting back scientists that were trying to figure out how it all works as some sort of "witchcraft".
It's better to stay to the facts as much as possible, but believe is kinda unavoidable at some point when you create your worldvieuw, but it creates a lot of irrational outcomes which are only visible for those that don't belong to the group that you share your believes with. And these outcomes are arguably not "positive" for everyone that lives near this believe system. So thank science for giving an objective dataset on which you can actually have a discussion on, instead of making stuff up along the way?
