Yes, and look at which group of people invented the internet, airplanes, transistors, refrigerators and
Premise: Science gives us new toys, shiny cars, and bombs.
Conclusion: The scientific account of the world is the true account.
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Religion as a social and psychological phenomenon is very important. It's a very good example of a high effective and contagious meme that has persisted for much of written history.
As is science. But I agree with all this.
But the chance of it being right is so low that it's far more likely for me to have had consistent and complete hallucinations in my life than for a particular god to exist.
Actually, let me go ahead and take this a step further: the odds of religion being true empirically are exactly 0%, unless you redefine "religion" in some radical way. But no true Christian would disagree anyway; religion leans upon a faculty above reason.
It's true that the rest of the world takes it very seriously, but that shouldn't significantly change the probability of it being true when there's so much evidence against it.
There's no evidence for or against religion empirically, because it's not an empirical claim. Now, you'll probably argue that only empirical claims are worth something, which is itself an unsubstantiated value judgment. Have fun finding a way out of the labyrinth you've set up for yourself, champ.
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