Re: What is SCIENCE?

Dan Still wrote:

> > : Why is atheism the default view?  Why not Hinduism?  Why not nihilism?
> >
> > Because if nobody tells you about a god yet, you don't believe in it yet.
>
>
> Maybe, maybe not.

Really? So there are people believing that Jesus exists without ever hearing 
about him?

> You don't believe in evolution until someone tells you about it.  You
> don't believe in astronomy until someone tells you about that, too. 
> You don't believe in history until someone tells you about that, too. 
> You don't believe in lots of things until you hear of them...  What's
> the point?

How exactly does one "believe" in history? You mean, until he starts 
believing in it, he thinks nothing ever happened anywhere?

On the same note, how does one "believe" in astronomy? In evolution? Does on 
chant prayers and thump the Origin of Species?