(September 24, 2009 at 4:12 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: God was never ever about anything proved by science. That is utter tosh
Well, god was about superstitions attempting to provide explanations for events in the absense of knowledge (as in the belief that people got sick as punishment from god, or that lightning striking churches meant god was displeased was the parish). As knowledge increased, people's need to cite god's earthly intervention decreased; to the point where we are now, which is that god is not required to explain ongoing function of the universe. God has been pushed back to a possible "first cause" as thats the last hiding place that science is working on.
So yeah, "god was never about anything [already] proved by science", but god was used as explanation for events, which have subsequently been disproven by science
Hitchens has spoken of religion as man's first, and consequently worst, attempts at science and philosophy, and I think that just about nails it....
