Quote Originally Posted by sport_122
Ocelot.

what you are referring to is called presuppositions. Basically its all those things that shape how we will interpret anything that we take in with our five senses. If your initial view on life is that there is a God and he is real then you are more likely to interpret all things in light of that and if you don't believe there is a God then you are likely to interpret things in that manor.
That's not necessarily true.

I was raised to believe in God and to take the word of the bible as truth as a kid. I was baptized and did my first communion, but I never cared for it. I did it because my parents pretty much forced me to.

It didn't shape me into the person that I am today. I wasn't into church as a kid and I am still not. I interpret things in a logical manner.


Quote Originally Posted by sport_122
It is very difficult to get around that personally, and especially with outside influences. I really had to wrestle with those things that I used to believe about God that were foundational things in my presuppositions and it is usually those things that when you first hear them you are shocked, or you think, no that's impossible. Things like free will, evolution, Alien/UFO existence, but after looking and really digging my presuppositions are very different than they were 12 years ago.
I personally don't see a reason to be shocked after being informed about aliens, evolution, ect. because seeing the world only through a religous point of view is pretty childish. People should be opened to things. No reason to limit yourself.

As a kid it was pretty easy accepting the fact that religion contained flaws and it was also pretty easy for me to accept that science contained flaws. Both sides aren't perfect but when you look at them in a logical way you can logically say that religion contains a lot more flaws than science and it's theories. Science provides answers to questions. Religion does not.