Firstly, might I say "Never enter a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent."
That being said, I'm going to directly correct you and tell you you're an idiot afterwards.
Science is not a belief, it is an understanding.
Religion is a belief, and a faith, not an understanding.
To define those terms:
Understanding:
Code:
1. The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension.
2. The faculty by which one understands; intelligence. See synonyms at reason.
3. Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion.
4.
1. A compact implicit between two or more people or groups.
2. The matter implicit in such a compact.
5. A reconciliation of differences; a state of agreement: They finally reached an understanding.
6. A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy.
Faith:
Code:
1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. See synonyms at belief, trust.
3. Loyalty to a person or thing; allegiance: keeping faith with one's supporters.
4. often Faith Christianity. The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will.
5. The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith.
6. A set of principles or beliefs.
That being said, to have an understanding of something is the opposite of faith. It is a logical, rational, conclusive fact in which you do not BELIEVE it to be correct, but you KNOW it to be correct.
No one can say they KNOW God is correct, but they can say they believe in God, or they have faith in God and in the church, etc. It is possible to also say that you believe in science, however, this takes on a different meaning when understanding facts and belief intertwine. The new meaning would be that you trust in the laws of which you live by.
Now I'll call you an idiot, and also tell you to get a fucking education, or something. All you have done is repeat yourself, and no actual defending of your opinion. You've attempted to start a debate in which you know nothing about, and you attacked a group of people without even UNDERSTANDING what you were talking about.
I bet you couldn't even describe atheism without using Google.
Furthermore, to correct some of the atheists on this thread (because not everyone is right)...
Firstly, when you die, you don't just die and poof you're gone. Newton's Law of Energy contains a line which says "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely lost or transferred." Therefore, when you "die" your energy (brain waves, electrical impulses, etc) does not cease to exist, that is unlawful and cannot happen based on PROVEN FACT.
I am not going to be so illogical to say that it just goes to a magical place ran by a fucked up zombie, but I am going to tell you that the energy the runs your entire system, and the electrical current which keeps you alive does not simply stop. It is lost/transferred, so it IS somewhere, for it can't be nowhere.
Furthermore, to you, Classical, I understand what you are saying, and I am telling you that you are wrong. I do not have an opinion that you are wrong, and that I am right, I am telling you that based on the 3rd dimension in which you live, which we have all come to call reality, you are incorrect.
You exist in a 3rd dimension (as far as science can prove *name*), and therefore your reality is the same as everyone else's.
However, reality is also how you perceive it. The state of which you exist will not change, but how you see that of which you exist within can be altered at any time. This is called quantum physics, and is very real, and logical.
Also, scientists and atheists do not simply say "This seems to be real, so lets make it a law." No, what happens is a hypothesis is formed in several scientific journals, controlled experiments are performed to test the hypothesis, if the hypothesis passes every test (100%) (Complete) (Absolute opposite of 0% and failure) then it may pass into a theory after several other scientists perform the same tests and receive (100%) (Complete) (Absolute opposite of 0% and failure) the same results. After a theory has been accepted and proven throughout the universe, it becomes a law.
So, why is gravity not a law? Because of a little thing called dark matter, and blackholes. Scientists can only experiment so far, so the fact that gravity is NOT considered a law disproves your entire hypothesis that science is in fact a religion. They cannot prove that gravity is DEFINITELY gravity and that it is omniscient, therefore it is still the theory of gravity.
Now, stfu and gtfo noob.