RE: Do you think Science and Religion can co-exist in a society?
May 30, 2017 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2017 at 12:43 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 30, 2017 at 10:50 am)pool the matey Wrote: I don't think it's impossible. If people just be nice to each other then maybe.
I think it's possible to hold scientifically proven worldviews while still being religious.
After all, religion and science have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
So in my opinion - why not? It is possible. It's just a question of whether people are willing or not I guess.
It has coexisted. So evidently it is possible. But just like the US and USSR appears mutually utterly inimical and yet coexisted for 45 years, coexistence does not mean refraining from undermining the other.
Science could not really be science if it does not undermine religion, while religion, to keep from being undermined itself, will strive to undermine science.
In no imaginable case could the one completely undermine the other because each of them answers a different extremely deep seated emotional need that exist in the human population. Where there is demand, a supply will materialize.
However, nothing says answering emotional needs evolved over 560 million years are necessarily beneficial for survival of the species, or to the reduction of emiseration of the specie, in the next 100,1000, or 10000 years.
So the more relevant question is, which of the two, science or religion, if successful in undermining the other to a much larger degree than the other is able to undermine itself, would be more conducive to the long term survival of the specie, and the reduction in the long term emiseration ofbthe specie. The answer is almost certainly not religion.
