There are so many indirect effects that I don't get what your complaint is. Basically, you are arguing that an increase in knowledge about biology is a negative for medical science. That does not make sense to me, especially since an increase in understanding space and chemistry and anthropology have all led to advances in medicine.
Ok i get you , you have a point.
But i don't say that progress doesn't exist.
In oposite , i do belive in science , without science humanity wouldn't be today where it is.
I only say that science should be focused more on saving the human life,and we should value the human life above everything.
What kind of products did science developed in weapon industry and chemistry.What did that lead to?
You said to me :
"I give respect on the basis of someone being a human being" and "increase or decrease respect based upon their actions and words."
Actions and words define you as what kind of human you are.I agree with that.
So judge me by words
"I was born in South Europe,Eastern Orthodox religion.I was raised and tought about moral from the only Church in a place where majority of the population were Muslims.And the only thing that i refused to listen from the Priests is when they told me to be good with someone who is not good like me.They told me that will make me a good person.And i could not procces that.. I fought oftenly and one time that become a problem..
Just because i could't resist to answer.
So basic kids staff , as you can assume..
I was given a gift from young age to understand things more quickly and i was advanced for my generation(my teacher told that to my mother).
I was perfect in high school and i started taking seriously what science says.
The last year in high school we had that last exam in Math and i solved it in 10 minutes i think.My teacher took my test and went to every class in the school to show the students what commitment means - 100 % work done and oppurtunity.
I felt good and i said to myself , this is the path i want to follow.
It felt good when someone values your effort.I Thoght more from Math perspective , if i commit myself to develop a studying habit i will absorb knowledge and i will have more probabilities to have a normal life.
So make your life better , don't wait for someone else to do it for you.You do that and learn.. I was ready for University..
But **** happens in life.I was put in a situation that had only 1 choice, i had to work and provide money , it was moraly to do , i didn't like it , but family is family.
I went to University , but only for three months.
The job that i worked didn't provide me conditions to commit myself on both places so i worked only.
I was 18 when that happend , and the next 10 years of my life everything i touched i destroyed.I became a new person
I lost my father , and i was so furious at life that put me in that position.I was put on a place that i didn't want it , but i had to do it , and i didn't do it well.I felt on the pressure and i started doing wrong things that affect everbody around me.
When you go that road , it's hard to come back.I am 28 now so that was a long fight for me.Many things happend..
Christ turned me back from all that , in his words i found the light to push me forward , to correct everything i've done and put the broken pieces together.
I knew everything that i was doing was wrong , and still i continued doing it.
I have been aproached many times from people that love me to change myself but nothing ever reached to me.
I said many times to my mother to not speak about religion and to not use such words at home , because i was not comforotable with hearing such nonsense.
I was never asked directly ,but when someone would've asked me do i think God exist then probably i would've said to him to be reasonable with his claims.
I was not a good person , in general.
At my last stage i was so broken emotionaly that all i wanted is to come back to normal life , nothing more.I just wanted that to end.
That life and all the problems , everything to end.
How and what happend is for another time..
I always want to point out something to express my belief with meaning.
And i always try to find something that can explain as it is.
I saw somewhere a question "What Home Means ?" And i tought about it..
For some people that is a House , apartment , place to live , but for me Home is everything.Home Is Love,Home is Family , Home is the child's innocence, Home is all the Good moments in life,Home is where your hearth lays.
And i found my way back Home.
I should 've done better , but i didn't , i felt on the pressure and disapointed myself and everyone else.
I was weak and i was falling
And i had predispositions to be something,but i chosed to lose my focus.
And Christ pulled me back,i belived in that wisdom , and i acted.
I don't regret the commitment that i put in school,i will continue it
I Learned also something about shame , it can be your greatest weapon and your greatest enemy.
If you use it as a motiv to fix things, it is a weapon , but if you hide it , you will fall deep in it.
I understand how you see the personal expirience as evidence , but just wanted to say my way to it..
Still doesn't prove anything on how atheists see things, but i take my life lesson against every oposite.
What is the consequence of that to not be true? - i Will rot in the ground when i die, nothing more.