Why don't they just change their religion?

[Batcher]

Sorry, I get mixed up with different users on here sometimes. For a moment I thought you were one of the not-completely-thick-as-a-plank users who was capable of critical thought. My mistake.

There is a big difference between insulting and belittling and despising a strongly held religious belief and those who hold them, and insulting and belittling the hateful, hackneyed, wannabe-shocking, sophomoric, tiresome, unoriginal babblings of an uninformed cowardly troll.

I don't necessarily agree with all aspects of every religion, and I think some aspects are hateful, some religious messaging worthy of being mocked. However that doesn't mean I despise all believers of religion.
In the same way, see above about internet comments. That doesn't mean I despise all internet users. Maybe quite a lot of them, but not all.

That's all very Christian of you

[DodgyAgent]

The big bang theory sounds an awful lot like the ex nihilo creation of Christianity and other faiths. A well known observation, not mine.

Personally I think the big bang theory is what happens when you give relativistic cosmologists a lot of weed.

It is a theory not a truth.

[Gibbon]

The vast majority of people are born to their religious outlookAnyone who's done even the most cursory study will know that there is a vast different between superstition and religion. Many non-religious people are highly superstitious, so the two cannot possibly be synonymous.

Your premise is flawed. Religion is but a subset of superstition.
Not all superstitions are religious.
All religions are based on superstitions.

[Dactylion]

I know a song about immigrants.

I am not getting into this thread for any other reason than to applaud you Sir for this!!!!

[SpontaneousOrder]

The big bang theory sounds an awful lot like the ex nihilo creation of Christianity and other faiths. A well known observation, not mine.

Personally I think the big bang theory is what happens when you give relativistic cosmologists a lot of weed.

Also, the BBT doesn't suppose that it answer the question of how we all got here. All it is is a a theory, based on evidence, to suggest what happened a long time ago.

"What was before the BB" isn't an invalid question. The BBT doesn't suppose that there was nothing before or that there was necessarily no cause. Just that there was a big bang which created the universe as we observe it. It's hardly mystical, just like it's hardly mystical to suggest that an oak tree grows from an acorn.

[SpontaneousOrder]

MGM is bad too. Although not so bad I dare say.

[vwdan]

Do we need to discuss what a theory is, in a scientific sense?

It's not a hypothesis.

[MicrosoftBob]

The big bang theory sounds an awful lot like the ex nihilo creation of Christianity and other faiths. A well known observation, not mine.

Personally I think the big bang theory is what happens when you give relativistic cosmologists a lot of weed.

Sheldon would not approve