Do you think that one day religion will become a thing of the past

[abaris]

I've even heard the argument that the advancement of sciences by Newton, Kepler and Galileo was because of their belief in a creator.

Newton, by all accounts, even was a fundamentalist. But that doesn't change the fact, they were, for the most part, persecuted by religious authorities. Keppler wasn't. I even have to leather bound calendaries from 1647 and 1649 with a preliminary by Johannes Keppler. My father found them when he was setting up shop right after the war.

But that aside. I would add what I always say when this is asked. I don't even think, it's desirable for religion to vanish. The void would be filled by some other unknown ideology. Many people always look for direction. What I wish for is fundamentalist religion to vanish, since it mostly does harm. Not belief as such.