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Originally Posted by dipayankar  Plato and Aristotle were in an age where God was the dominating factor. As time passed and human beings started deciphering the Universe more and more, the need for the concept called God is diminishing.... |
Hi Dipayankar; You might want to rethink your above statement:
Though atheists are in the minority in most countries, they are relatively common in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, in former and present Communist states, and, to a lesser extent, in the United States. A 1995 survey attributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica indicates that the non-religious are about 14.7% of the world`s population,
and atheists around 3.8% . A 2004 survey by the CIA in the World Fact book estimates about 12.5% of the world`s population to be non-religious, and about
2.4% as atheists . Non-religious people should not be equated with atheists as the definition of n
on-religious persons includes the people who are
professing no religion, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, dereligionized secularists indifferent to all religions.
It is a surprise that even after six centuries of the exponential growth of the knowledge of science, more than 95% of the people do not deny the existence of God while almost 85% of the world population actually believes in God. It is also a fact that scientific knowledge has hardly made a dent on the popularity of the religions and faith. Even Isaac Newton, the greatest scientists of all times, believed
"As a blind man has no idea of colours, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.” Even the greatest scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein agreed that “
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Also you didn't answer is your unknown force created or eternal or something else? Best Pat