Philosophy is detrimental to the analysis of religion

[athoughtfulman]

Philosophy is an interesting study, it is just way too much window dressing.

I think philosophy is much more useful than you understand. Think about it this way. Science gives us facts. Raw data that we can fit into a bigger picture, which is incidentally, just more facts. Science is the study of everything and anything observable by empirical means, however it does not fit it into a worldview. We need philosophy to make sensible use of science.

Conclusions which are based on science but cannot be sensibly called "scientific fact", are conclusions of philosophy. For example the implications of evolution on morality, and whether it is objective. Sure we can look back and observe with scientific observation that morality developed through evolution, but when we start discussing the implications on morality being subjective or objective, we start using philosophical measures.

I only thought of this the other night, so correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe science doesn't give a complete picture of what we are as humans. We need philosophy to make science fit into the big picture.