17th March 2003, 1:51 AM
Quote: Weltall... religion = science? Hardly! Science has concrete laws that have been proven. Its basis does not operate on any theories. Theoretical science does... but that isn't the main part of science. Its facts. Proven, repeatable or concretely provable scientific facts. Does it have all the answers? Absolutely not. There is a lot of stuff we have no idea about... and science freely admits that it doesn't know that stuff. Scientists are working on some of those issues, but it will never solve all the truths... by its nature it can't... its always searching for the truth. The fact that that truth regularly upsets people often retards scientific progress, but never stops it completely... and I am sure that that cycle will continue.
Religion is not like that at all. It has all the answers ready for you... no individual thought is really required... and there is no theory, or things that it doesn't know... on the level of 'something you believe' I can see a connection, but beyond that extremely shallow level? Nope. Religion is simpler... safer... easier to understand... and a lot more comforting to people... not much like science at all.
Science is absolutely LOADED with theories. Anyone can tell you what E=MC^2 means, it's the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein is considered one of the greatest scientists in history because of this theory. I personally do not believe it, as it takes into account that time is tangible, and I firmly believe it is not. Science is also like religion in that a lot of belief in Science is based on faith, particularly about what we can do with it. How many times have scientists come up with so-called 'miracle cures', how many times do they hypothesize about what technology we might have in a hundred years? And science gave birth to science fiction, of course.
Religion hardly has all the answers for anyone, if it did, it would not be so widely and variably interpreted, since if it did have all the answers, there would be no way it could be open for interpretation. There would not be endless denominations of Christianity, who all differ in how they interpret the teachings of Christ. Again, you display your ignorance of the subject matter. I made the parallels between faith and science in that you worship science while we worship God. You believe Science, with enough time, can explain all the mysteries of the universe. That is faith just as much as someone who believes God created the universe is a demonstration of faith.
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