John Loftus has pointed to a news article suggesting that students who major in Humanities are more likely to walk away from religion than those who are into the
sciences. I'm not surprised by that. The
humanities have men and our natures as the standard and relatively equal. However, in the sciences we can see
objective truth. There are absolutes. There are well defined and predictive description of nature outside of opinion and emotion. When it comes to history,
psychology,
sociology, and the like they drive on emotion and one can argue about what is
right and wrong and you can't really pin down truth because outside of
God you have no rule brick and standard to examine truth claims. I think this is why I like science and
engineering better. The truth is you need all the disciplines to understand our reality. If you try to apply sociology to Physics you miss a lot but you also miss much the other way. You need both. If anything in such of things as history, I can see the hand of God just as well as I can
physics. I don't really see how people can deny design of the created order and how can people also deny that in order for the world to be just as it is today - billions of choices were made that made things happen as they are. Do we really think that it was by happenstance - that it's not going somewhere? I think that takes more faith.
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