Science: A Religion? (long post)

[Chas]

I acknowledge that in the short term we perceive knowledge and technology as delivering progress, but that this should translate into species progress cannot be substantiated.

What, exactly, is 'species progress'?

Religion and the social structures around it almost certainly improved the lives of its followers, there are studies that demonstrate empirical evidence that 'belief' has a positive effect on people.

And there are the facts that religions have damaged those who didn't follow them.

Whereas science benefits everyone equally.

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To say that science is a religion is to commit violence on the meanings of both words.

And to what end?