[quote=Yog Sothoth] i would like to point out that in today's world people are treated as inferior because they lack understanding, which is why I make criticisms of ignorant atheists. also in my opinion, being angry does not give one the right to be ignorant, that is called double standards and is why it is harder to break down prejudices. bullies are the way they are usually because they themselves have been bullied, does that give them the right to hurt other people? no it doesn't. there should never be an excuse for ignorance. as for science, i understand the purpose of science, but i am going to mention that not all scientist except new theories and ideas on how things are done. hell i have friends who a total science nuts who almost extremely believe in Einstein's laws of physics and consider it infallible. but remember Einstein was fervently ridiculed and insulted by his German piers for his theory of relativity which was a scientific model different from the traditional Newton model. [b]the same thing goes for the first people to get an idea that the earth was round[/b] and not flat, and that our planet orbited around the sun. they had no true way of knowing that it was true but they made educated guesses. our sciences exist today because of observation and educated guesswork. our skepticism and opinions exist because these individuals took a leap of faith with their theory and it turned out to be accurate. in a sense religion is created out of observation, people saw the world around them and made their own ideas on how these things came to be. [/quote] This is misinformed, if I think you are including Christopher Columbus You see, ole' Chris didn't say the world was round, but it was pear shaped. A lot of ancient civilisations also suggested the world to be "Spherical" which is more accurate, really. It was die hard athiests(you know the equivalent to fanboys in the modern era) that suggested the world was flat. Again, people are misinformed on a lot of things such as how the human body has only 5 senses, when we have ten more senses. Also, please, this is getting off topic, and lets discuss the matter at hand.