Don't kill me just yet.
This was just something I was ruminating over while I was in the tub. Maybe ten minutes of thought went into this, and most of that was sporadic anyways, but...I got to thinking. Science is the refined method of inquiring on the way things work. It provides answers. Religion, as an invention of mankind, didn't just poof into existence just because it could; it came about because early on in our days of settling and starting little tiny villages of civilization, when we first started to share any form of ideas beyond just grunting and pointing, we began to realize that we died but we didn't know what happened afterwards. We were primitive, and knew only that which we experienced. We needed a means of explaining things because we started having questions and we didn't have any real means of explaining them so we basically created our own.
Science, nowadays, replaces this concept. It doesn't create answers, it genuinely seeks them, and it can do so because we've reached a technological point that allows us to do so. I defy someone to tell me that a caveman had a hope in hell of building something that could map out the higgs-boson particle, for example. But is the root of science grounded, in some ways, in religion?
Personally, I don't actually think so, after some thought. Science is a result of human curiosity, and religion was created to sate that insatiable curiosity at a point in our history when we really had no means of doing so otherwise. But it's an interesting correlation, even if unfounded; it had me wondering for a moment.
This was just something I was ruminating over while I was in the tub. Maybe ten minutes of thought went into this, and most of that was sporadic anyways, but...I got to thinking. Science is the refined method of inquiring on the way things work. It provides answers. Religion, as an invention of mankind, didn't just poof into existence just because it could; it came about because early on in our days of settling and starting little tiny villages of civilization, when we first started to share any form of ideas beyond just grunting and pointing, we began to realize that we died but we didn't know what happened afterwards. We were primitive, and knew only that which we experienced. We needed a means of explaining things because we started having questions and we didn't have any real means of explaining them so we basically created our own.
Science, nowadays, replaces this concept. It doesn't create answers, it genuinely seeks them, and it can do so because we've reached a technological point that allows us to do so. I defy someone to tell me that a caveman had a hope in hell of building something that could map out the higgs-boson particle, for example. But is the root of science grounded, in some ways, in religion?
Personally, I don't actually think so, after some thought. Science is a result of human curiosity, and religion was created to sate that insatiable curiosity at a point in our history when we really had no means of doing so otherwise. But it's an interesting correlation, even if unfounded; it had me wondering for a moment.
