Re: Religion and Science
Why pray for a miracle to rid you of your infection, when you can go to the store, get some orange peel mold, and be done?
Why pray to walk again, when a doctor can use stem cells to cure you?
Why pray for a kidney transplant when a doctor can go to your vat grown clone, rip out a kidney, and have you out of the hospital and pissing like a teenager in just a few days?
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As scientific knowledge increases, God gets smaller. God, even now, fills ONLY the gaps of scientific knowledge. The only realms God gets power in (soul, afterlife, etc.) are realms of "knowledge" that could have been easily made up bullshit.
As we begin to shrink those gaps, God will just seem more and more like Zeus and Thor. Who are dead now b/c we know thunder and lightning are the results of static electricity, releasing of electrons and so forth. Not b/c God's fight in our big 'ol scary sky.
This is why I believe religion has attempted, with some success even to this day, to keep it's boot on the neck of scientific achievement.
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Bronze Age beliefs dictating our scientific progression FTL.
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