Is Science our New God?

[aleco]

for someone who has the ability to question existance, you sure do believe a lot of unproven ideas without question.

What else can you believe? Nothing is really truly proven.

So you have to believe unproven things too.

[VxDx]

existentialism doesn't make logic and concrete evidence equal to stories and speculation.

[JustJono]

I remember (on page 2, I need a friggin' life) JewPin said that the church says that the universe spins around our solar system. I think the real statement in the Bible meant to say the Sun revolved around in a galaxy. The quote included the words, ".. as the sun goes it's course.." blah blah, I don't really remember the rest very well.

Also, I'm quite mad at the people who regarded the mentally ill and gay as "evil" or "sinners." I'm sure that wasn't God's purpose for creating them. When you fall in love with someone, or choose friends with someone, the morally right thing to do is to look at what's on the inside of that person, not on the outside. I think the same thing applies. If you're born with a disability, the moral is to learn that it's not what's on the outside that counts. It's your actual person - the personality inside you.

[perfect_fat]

Also, I'm quite mad at the people who regarded the mentally ill and #$* as "evil" or "sinners." I'm sure that wasn't God's purpose for creating them.

Or maybe they're possessed by demons, or have sold their souls to Lucifer.

[DracIV]

Sorry about bringing this back, but I came up with an AWESOME reply to the original topic:

What guest says makes a big dent in perfect fat’s opinion. When you look at life as a gift, one to be enjoyed, then it has enough meaning. Do you really need a purpose determined by someone else to guide you to happiness? Just being alive and making life enjoyable is purpose enough for me, and even better it is a purpose I choose to follow, not one that is defined for me. And in doing what they enjoy, people show more passion, emotion, and creativity than they would following specific religious rituals that are mostly insincere. Science need not be a religion, especially not like the ones of the past. I see a future where humans have used the tools they granted themselves and spread to millions of worlds, creating paradise that many only dream of. People walking through magnificent forests or through gigantic caverns that they fostered and nutured. With science we can make up for all our failings and far more, spreading life and happiness to all parts of the universe. In this way people can live lives where they are truly happy doing what they truly enjoy. For all we know, humans may find immortality and that happiness shall last forever with no need of a God or afterlife. It’s the promise of an afterlife that makes people accept terrible lives and pain-filled years. When you take away that delusion and show people to the true escape, you do not crush their humanity but instead make it the most it can possibly be. Science does not destroy creativity and emotion and thought, for it is those things, it is the search caused by those things for ultimate happiness.

The essence of our humanity truly does exist in philosophy, emotion, and thought, but we only think spirituality is part of it.