After Science, What's Left For Religion? (reject, salvation, beliefs, evolution)

[gnostic]

I don't see why religion and science can't exist together in any society. It just that shouldn't be considered as the same. Their aims are different, and that is how they should remain.

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by ALifetimeToWaitFor....

I think the more appropriate question is, has science become a religion?

I think that's an especially shallow question best left to bimbo talk show hosts. But that's just my opinion. Others might find some profoundity in it.

Physicists in particular are debating the existence of God and are incorporating many morals into their search for the TRUTH.

I am not clear as to what you meant that morals can be incorporated into a search for truth. Could you enlighten me as to how this is done? Could you give a specific instance of how, where and when it is done?

[ALifetimeToWaitFor....]

religion |riˈlijən| noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods : ideas about the relationship between science and religion. • details of belief as taught or discussed : when the school first opened they taught only religion, Italian, and mathematics. • a particular system of faith and worship : the world's great religions. • a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance : consumerism is the new religion.

Those bimbos have a good vocabulary!

[ALifetimeToWaitFor....]

They continue to make decisions with the light on compassion rather than the abuse of their power. However these rules can be twisted, turned, and are not always followed just as we have seen through the centuries in religion.

Phsyicists mainly by vowing not to use their power to create weapons.

However they do not do this at the expense of science and do not ascribe to social ethics or religious ethics, but have formed their own.

[Willamena]

Originally Posted by ALifetimeToWaitFor....

religion |riˈlijən| noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods : ideas about the relationship between science and religion. • details of belief as taught or discussed : when the school first opened they taught only religion, Italian, and mathematics. • a particular system of faith and worship : the world's great religions. • a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance : consumerism is the new religion.

Those bimbos have a good vocabulary!

Different contexts, though.

"Music is my religion." etc.

[cardero]

After Science, What's Left For Religion?
A pocketful of miracles.

[ALifetimeToWaitFor....]

Not different contexts. In Christianity is it not the pursuit of which Christians ascribe supreme importance to living life like Christ? In the same way you may ascribe to music or to food whatever, but it still a pursuit of extreme importance. Even if not relating to God entirely. It is still religion.

[OneStraw Revolutionary]

I see where you're going with that. I think I might know an athiest or two who, if forced by knife-point to answer the question, would say science is indeed their religion.

Really, I can't see the two as different, science and religion. True, there are many different parts with no relation to each other whatsoever, like digging up a dinosaur femur has nothing to do with when its right for me to give in to my bloodlust. But to say that religion has only one goal, and science too has one aspiration, seems to be simplifying each too much.

When it comes to such things as the origins of this world, or how exactly the cultures which practiced these religions did so, Science and Religion walk hand in hand. The revivalist tradition which I follow owes much to anthropology and technological advancements to gain a window into this dead culture. In terms of discovering who these people were, how they practiced their religion, what was their religion, my spiritual tradition and a few scientific traditions wanted to find out the same thing.

[Booko]

Originally Posted by cardero

After Science, What's Left For Religion?
A pocketful of miracles.

What miracles?

Let me know when you run across the slew of miracles in my religion, cardero.

I can show you the texts that proclaim miracles useless as proof of anything.