Religion vs Science
I have met, talked to or heard from a number of people over the years that believe that religion is a bad thing, that there is no God, and that all forms of religious institution should be banished. A number of them also feel that science proves this, and they speak of it in a manner to where it becomes not science but Science in the same manner as religion. I read somewhere once that "Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded."
So would these people have us exchange one God for another, one that lacks ethical or moral guidelines? Science of itself can lead terrible places, such as some of the experiments and pogroms the Nazis did claiming Darwinian justification. Societies where religion is banned don't tend to treat their people well, namely many communist regimes.
Does religion have as much to answer for? Yes. But not enough to abolish it. I think that ultimately, we have to have both. In the words of Albert Einstein, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." We need science to answer how the universe works, and religion to answer why.
So would these people have us exchange one God for another, one that lacks ethical or moral guidelines? Science of itself can lead terrible places, such as some of the experiments and pogroms the Nazis did claiming Darwinian justification. Societies where religion is banned don't tend to treat their people well, namely many communist regimes.
Does religion have as much to answer for? Yes. But not enough to abolish it. I think that ultimately, we have to have both. In the words of Albert Einstein, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." We need science to answer how the universe works, and religion to answer why.