(September 26, 2009 at 8:10 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote:(September 26, 2009 at 5:38 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Then what was science and not religion was always science and never religion. It's a common misplaced accusation scientists make of religion and to be honest I find it pathetic.
Sounds like shifting the goal-posts to me. Like you're saying Religion is only truly Religion when it's modern Religion which completely avoids any science issues. That's your opinion. The Religions of the past that tried to explain things, where still Religions to those religious people of the past.
EvF
Exactly. Religion still tries to explain remaining unanswered questions - i.e. what caused the big bang (god), why there's 'something' rather than 'nothing' (god); where our morality comes from (god); what happens to us after death (we are rewarded or punished, by god).
These are quite possibly empirical claims, which directly trespass on scientific grounds, and attempt to fill a void of knowledge with answers, for which there is no evidence. Hopefully at some point, science will illuminate these gaps of knowledge, and religion will retreat once more to an even narrower definition, eventually to a point were religion can longer make any claim of special knowledge on anything.
