(April 17, 2016 at 11:10 am)Stimbo Wrote: Exactly my point. When you even attempt to make a pragmatic effort to look for answers as opposed to sitting on your arse guessing, you're doing science.
Religion is nothing but guessing. It really does stem from evolution though, not that evolution makes any religion true, just that it stems from our evolutionary pattern seeking. Problem is we simply even today don't want to face that our perceptions of reality are notoriously flawed. Just like we once thought the earth was flat, and back when we didn't know any better, it was a very easy gap filling mistake to make because we didn't have the modern tools to test our perceptions.
But again, just like it is easy to convince a toddler Santa is real, our species can be quite successful forming groups on very false perceptions, just like the Ancient Egyptians were successful for 3,000 years centered around the very false polytheism of their time. I do not see any modern religion, monotheistic or polytheistic as being any less of the same gap filling answer mistake than they made.
