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Has Science done away with a need for God?

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Has Science done away with a need for God?
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RE: Has Science done away with a need for God?
July 27, 2015 at 7:34 pm (This post was last modified: July 27, 2015 at 7:35 pm by bennyboy.)
I don't think science has solved the questions that God is meant to solve. It doesn't explain cosmogony well, or why consciousness exists rather than not. At best, it gives for things things a narrative not more rooted in observable fact than religious narratives.


HOWEVER, I think the main role of science in the loss of interest/belief in religion is the shrinking of the world due to communication. When you mingle the Christian mythology with that of Muslims, Jews, Egyptians, ancient Romans and Greeks, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. it no longer becomes a choice of God/no God. It becomes a choice of a million-and-one mythologies vs. just giving up and saying, "I'm to busy to deal with this. Let's just do some science." So science has made each religion ridiculous by bringing each religious person face-to-face with other religions, which IT considers ridiculous, and then giving it a mirror, and saying, "Are you so sure? Really?"
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Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 27, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Lek - July 29, 2015 at 12:22 pm
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by bennyboy - July 27, 2015 at 7:34 pm
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 31, 2015 at 10:20 pm
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 31, 2015 at 11:36 pm
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by IATIA - August 1, 2015 at 9:46 am

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