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In reply to the discussion: Does the Big Bang breakthrough offer proof of God? [View all]The person who wrote this is ignorant in more ways than one.
In the 600 c. bce, people in the East developed systems of religious thought that did not rely upon a deity.
In 500 bce, a Greek philosopher, Democritus, postulated the existence of atoms and the chemical structure that makes up everything in the universe.
Archimedes, in 200 bce, laid the foundation for physics through his mathematical investigations and in the 1600s inspired Galileo.
Lucretius, 55 bce, described a world guided by physical principles, with atoms as the foundation of matter, in a world where life is random, not controlled by some sort of god. And of course, at this same time, there were people who chose to believe in the gods of the day - Zeus, et al...and Yaweh and then Jesus, etc.
There is no excuse for the actions of religious believers, who have systematically worked, in the west, to undermine progress across millennia. They have to pretend humans weren't already thinking of complex systems apart from the idea of god, long before their current religion even existed. But this is exactly the case - and this is just the west.
But this person argues that the idea of particles and waves couldn't be understood when the bible was written. This is just a weak argument to excuse the reality that no religion has ever been a good way to explain the world - wasn't and isn't and won't be.
All of religion constitutes appeals to ignorance.