What anyone chooses to believe is his (or her) choice. But faith and science canot be mxed up. Faith is a matter of personal choice - one can believe anything one - no one can challenge a belief. Science however is different. It is not a matter of what anyone believes it is a matter of observable information. Science is divided in two the theoretical and the practical.
If people choose to believe that Earth is the centre of the Universe or that it is flat, it is entirely their choice. If they choose to believe that human beings did not evolve from some other creature then they have no reason. No one is forcing them to believe otherwise, matters of faith no matter how much overwhelming the evidence is against their collective belief, nothing can change that, they will continue to believe. They do not want to hear or see anything which contradicts their tenets. . Science presents information which has been observed and analysed - it can be challenged provided one has overwhelming evidence to prove it otherwise. So if someone decides the scientific evidence is convincing enough - the problem they face is to be treated as outcasts. Some are labelled as atheists.
Someone can believe that aliens came down on our planet and altered the DNA of apes to make them human. Or that human beings are really from another planet. Then there is the divine intervention belief which made it possible for human beings to be, those who believe in such things can do so. Faith can never be challenged - no amount of scientific evidence can change what people believe in.
Scientists are not priests - they are constantly changing their stand on issues along with new discoveries and inventions. They do not stick one idea just because they have absolute faith in it. Priests regardless of scientific proof do not change their stand, nothing can be challenged and changed. It has to accepted for what it is. There are people who believe in several gods there are those who believe in one. There is no limit on things to what we can believe in and there is absolutely no solution to this. Faith is essentially about everything which is unknown or unknowable. Even the idea that we have intellectual capacity to question things and tell difference between what is patently absurd and what is not - is treated as sacrilege. There is really no way out of this problem.
If people choose to believe that Earth is the centre of the Universe or that it is flat, it is entirely their choice. If they choose to believe that human beings did not evolve from some other creature then they have no reason. No one is forcing them to believe otherwise, matters of faith no matter how much overwhelming the evidence is against their collective belief, nothing can change that, they will continue to believe. They do not want to hear or see anything which contradicts their tenets. . Science presents information which has been observed and analysed - it can be challenged provided one has overwhelming evidence to prove it otherwise. So if someone decides the scientific evidence is convincing enough - the problem they face is to be treated as outcasts. Some are labelled as atheists.
Someone can believe that aliens came down on our planet and altered the DNA of apes to make them human. Or that human beings are really from another planet. Then there is the divine intervention belief which made it possible for human beings to be, those who believe in such things can do so. Faith can never be challenged - no amount of scientific evidence can change what people believe in.
Scientists are not priests - they are constantly changing their stand on issues along with new discoveries and inventions. They do not stick one idea just because they have absolute faith in it. Priests regardless of scientific proof do not change their stand, nothing can be challenged and changed. It has to accepted for what it is. There are people who believe in several gods there are those who believe in one. There is no limit on things to what we can believe in and there is absolutely no solution to this. Faith is essentially about everything which is unknown or unknowable. Even the idea that we have intellectual capacity to question things and tell difference between what is patently absurd and what is not - is treated as sacrilege. There is really no way out of this problem.
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