Recent proof for yet another of Einstein's predictions, gravitational waves, has just been found. For those of you who don't know, the LIGO observatory recently detected gravitational waves from two colliding black holes, which are approximately 1 billion light years away. This amazing discovery will enable us to view the universe in a new way. I look forward to the new information we can now gather about the universe we live in.



The more that science discovers, the less room religion has to substantiate itself. As the pool of scientific knowledge grows, so diminishes the ability of sane and reasonable people to hold the bible, or parts of, as literal. Over the decades and centuries, the bible and other religious texts have been taken less and less literally, and are in turn taken more and more metaphorically. You see, the only way for the faithful to reconcile their beliefs with new scientific discoveries, is to take the bible less and less literally. Eventually, the bible and other religious texts will be reduced to nothing more than fanciful mythologies, just like the 12 gods of ancient Greece and Rome, or the Norse gods of the Scandinavians.



Often when confronted by solid scientific information, which for example, refutes the great flood in the fictional story of Noah, the faithful will say things like "perhaps the flood was localised", "perhaps the story is a metaphor for something deeper". There are numerous fallacious statements the faithful make, in futile attempts to cling onto their delusional beliefs.



I have often heard of the 'Egyptian chariots' in the Dead Sea, which the faithful cling to as proof that Moses parted the seas, through god, to save his people from the Pharaoh and his army. I have always been astonished by the reasoning behind this; that is, ancient chariots were discovered on the sea floor, therefore... unicorns. Those chariots could have been dropped there after a ship carrying them sunk, or if the chariots were driven into the sea during a coastal battle. There are many logical and realistic situations to broach before jumping to insane conclusions like "you see, the story of parting the Dead Sea must be true!".



Since many of the faithful have been indoctrinated from birth, debating them about the fiction that is the bible and other religious texts, is mostly futile.

