Originally posted by Namaste
What's going to happen when Science explains away religion?
It already has, my friend. The news hasn't percolated into some people's brains, that's all.
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Originally posted by ELECTRICkoolaidZOMBIEtest
1) people would kill themselves. they cant fathom having purpose that isnt kissing the @ss of god
2) they would kill/rape/steal from other people (their reasoning- whats the point of being good if you dont get an eternal reward?)
3) people would say that the science is just the work of the devil
4) people would claim the science is wrong because god says so.
5) lots of partying. lots of wanton sex
If anyone did these things, it would be religious people--or rather, the most fanatical believers among them. Mentally healthy people don't need a
god to keep them in line.
It is a mistake to believe that morality is derived from religion. Morality is the elaboration of human social and parental instincts; we need not
fear that it will disappear as religion continues to wither. It is religion that needs morality to support it, not the other way round.
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Originally posted by asmall89
There is a huge misconception that religion and science are at odds... Even large figureheads of science like Isaac Newton, Galileo, and even Darwin
were not without belief in the supernatural...
Oh, but science and religion
are at odds. History shows that one drives out the other. There are no exceptions to this.
The fact that Newton and Galileo were believers is no surprise; in those times, everybody had religion. Darwin, as is well known, became an atheist in
later life.
However, their personal beliefs are not relevant: what
is relevant is that their discoveries made contemporary doctrines such as geocentricism
and creationism untenable, forcing religion to retreat from those positions. It is true that, in Newton's case, Copernicus had already done all the
hard work, but the point still holds.
The dream of reconciliation between science and religion will always be only that: a dream, whose well-meaning dreamers are eternally doomed to
disappointment.
As to the parallels you discern between religious and scientific concepts, be aware that
all concepts emerge from the human brain, so the
existence of morphological similarities among concepts are not just likely but inevitable. I appreciate that such an argument is a bit sophisticated
for Above Top Secret, but consider it anyway.
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Originally posted by breakingdradles
Science IS a religion.
Originally posted by shamhat
science, generally speaking, is a belief system.
It often looks that way to people who do not understand it. People who do, however, can easily see how silly such statements are. Sadly, the only ways
to learn the difference are to study philosophy or actually do some science. I suggest you two give one or the other a try.
thats what I was trying to say more or less. I think it is ironic in certain ways because Quantum Physics talks about alternate
dimensions and in a way so does Religion so in a sense they could be the same thing, just different ways of explaining them.
