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Originally posted by alexanderao
I'd disagree. I would argue that scientific advancement began due to an innate curiosity of the massive universe around us, and a desire to leave to question untouched. Humans are always looking for answers.
Now religion is for when you don't want to think so hard about those answers and instead pretend to know all the answers and let those answers dictate your life. Religion is the easy way out, and although it helps some people through tough times it fosters intolerance for people unlike each other because of their preordained beliefs.
Science is the open-ended way, the way where humans will never, ever have an answer to everything, the nitty-gritty, tough way, the curiosity-satiating and fulfilling way, the best way to make new discoveries about every topic.
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Religion has little to do with science for the reason that they are intended for different purposes so there is no point in comparing them. Religion only concerns our spiritual relationship to God, to one another, to life; while science explains our physical reality. Science doesn't try to explain purpose or spiritual connections nor religion tries to explain the natural world. They were originally meant to complement and not substitute each other. Science began as a search for God as the earliest scientists were all religious. The strife between the two occurred when fundamentalism became a dominant worldview in both discipline. Yes, fundamentalism (scientific materialism - science's counterpart of creationism) also exists in science where it tries to divorce science from its other siblings - religion and philosophy.
