Religion (or lack thereof) and Autism/Asperger's?

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Seems like beliefs are only believable for a few thousand years before they lose their credibility and stop being so. There was a time the world was believed to be flat. Now it's thought of as a sphere with a bulge in the middle. What if, a thousand years from now, someone says it's square?


Understandable, considering atheism is as dogmatic as religion.

In defense of people, we have discovered a lot considering how little time we have devoted to finding out. Scientists shouldn't be fooled into thinking a theory is written in stone when it could be one quarter truth at most. When I watch shows about the history of earth, I wonder if scientists really know, or if they are fooled into believing they know when they don't. I find myself thinking, "yes, but how do they know for sure?"


We don't even know for sure how many dimensions there are or how many we exist in.


Maybe there isn't a whole truth, and this is what humans have the hardest time grasping. A human is most comfortable with absolutes and will not accept that an absolute might be an impossibility.

Like "The absence of proof is not the proof of absence". Like Carl Sagan said. But I don´t believe in that.


We can´t see the extra dimensions implied by string theory but they are there. The LHC will prove it.

At what date will this "scientific proof" air on the scifi channel?

i said MOST sciences. i am not against space exploration, or species discovery, or organ transplants. i just cannot accept the idea of evolution, it stands entirely against my core values. and yes, most sciences are pretty much going to evolution and global warming, the only thing "warming" is that steaming pile of crap that modern science has become.

I can't bring myself to believe in God or in any other supernatural belief because I just find it implausible. I consider myself an atheist.

It's not science that gives me that impression but common sense and everyday experience, as well as experience gathered from reading. Not just reading about scientific theories but all other writing about human experience, like literature and philosophy.

I agree there are many things in the universe that we puny little humans cannot fathom, but the likelihood that a fairy tale invented by humans will turn out to be the correct explanation is highly unlikely.

No disrespect to religious people implied. I know that religion and spirituality can be very important to individuals, and I wouldn't want it taken away from them.

I am a spiritual person, not a religious one. Religion requires the closing of ones mind to the possibilities of the universe.

It is that religion is always against science. Inquisition burned Giordano Bruno alive and confined Galileo to home imprisonment because they believed that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

The good news you won't get that reaction from scientists, but they could ignore data and manipulate findings to suit their theories.

...not quite. look up the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The focus is on how academia tries to silence people who believe in Intelligent Design. they go so far as revoking tenure of college professors who simply question the theory of evolution

there is a modern day inquisition going on, people may not be burned at the stake, but people have been entirely discredited, kicked out of their field because they dare express belief in God.

I am and always have been atheist. Not agnostic, atheist. I am very relieved to see there are lots of other atheists here too.

Even though I'm a Christian, I don't describe myself as "religious" (I voted for the top one). I guess it depends on what you call "religious/religion". I don't practise "rituals" and in fact, I believe rituals can get in the way of my faith because if you do things with a strict routine, you lose the purpose of WHY you do them and I don't believe that the outward actions mean anything if you don't have the right heart. Jesus warned against doing things without the right heart, such as praying in public to "put on a show" rather than praying in secret.

The theory of evolution is a scientific theory that has very strong empirical evidence to support it, so any scientist who refutes it arbitrarily is not practicing science, unless they are able to point to empirical facts that can be verified and that disprove or cast doubt on the theory, and I'm not aware of any who have been able to do so credibly.

Creationism and intelligent design are religious theories, not scientific theories. It's fine to study them within the field of theology, whre they have a place, but they are not scientific theories and have no place in the field of science.

If you don't believe in science, then that's fine, you can study theology instead, which is an important field in its own right. But don't confuse the two.

I feel that Aspies and others on the Spectrum are more likely to be Agnostic or Atheist because they have a strong tendency to be more logical, and question things instead of blindly accepting certain beliefs. Apparently there are multiple contradictions in the Bible, and that doesn't help with convincing the Aspie either.

I voted for the 2nd choice, but it's really not right. I do attend every week. I don't ever skip. But I don't attend "as often as possible". That would be trying to go daily, rather than just once a week.

I'm really more spiritual than religious, but I do, as I said, attend weekly services.

Mostly agnostics and atheists, I see.
Which is kind of the result I expected. :P

I am religeous but I believe in science and religeon hard to explain