I am going to create this thead and comment more in it tommorow. But I will start it out now before I go to bed.

Has Science throughout the last couple hundred years slowly been eliminating the awnsers put forth by religions. For example how the body works, what the stars are, solar eclipses, etc etc I am sure you get the idea.

All these things were answered by religions first but then found out later in science to be wrong. Will eventually religions become extinct as we learn more and more for the next couple hundred years?

I can elaborate more later. Tired and I heard some guys on NPR talking about this when I was in lab, thought it was great.

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I don't think religion can ever be fully eliminated.

A godless society has always failed, mind you.

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I don't know about extinct (maybe in a really long time), but I'm guessing that religious people will become the minority within the next several hundred years. That is, of course, assuming we don't kill ourselves off first, which I wouldn't put past a lot of religious fanatics.

The problem is that science may never be able to answer the questions that are most important to a lot of people. We can explain that the Sun actually revolves around the Earth, but it seems unlikely that we'll ever be able to say where we go after death, or what was going on before the Big Bang (it's worthess to say "before" when talking about the Big Bang, but you know what I mean). And whenever science conflicts with scripture, people either write off science or reinterpret the scripture as a metaphor (TeH 3quivocat0r was demonstrating this earlier).

Not even close to meaning that godless societies will always fail or that godless societies in the past failed because of their godlessness. Every good thing about religion can be derived independent of it, and very easily, too. And without religion, people have less reasons to kill each other. Mind you.

Tangent - The Bible just sounds made up. Specifically, the way things like natural phenomena and the nature of God are explained sound like what would happen if a bunch of backwards, superstitious desert nomads sat around and wrote down whatever came into their heads. Just me?

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I think every day religion is questioned more. It isnt helping any with all these fanatics going around comitting suicide bombings and such.

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People will start to apply these truths to there own religion and they can think whatever.

Science is something that can be proved and such... Scientists have proof that this event happened. Religion says some things that are hard to believe. I'm not religious at all so I can't say anything about this exactly. When you have this problem or event that happened. The science thereoy usually sounds more true. The religious way is hard for someone that is not religious to believe. I tend to believe evolution over creation because I can't see how creation is possible. Religion won't become extinct, there will always be some people that believe religion over science.

Science usually tends to be right so I with it....

It is not really a question of when religion will go extinct because humans will go extinct and religion will go with them.

But a question of as we learn more and more about the natural world where religion has taken its roots will people back away from it more and more.

The godless societies thing is just bunk though. Every religious society has failed too. Mute point.

As for before the creation of the Universe. . . I am sure we will get to the point where this universe and what is beyond it will be found to not be it. There will be more to it out in space and that our little piece is just a smaller piece of a bigger thing. You know what I mean. . . I am pressed for time gotta run.

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I think science will eliminate ignorance but greater understanding might redefine the word god. well atleast for me the word god is the point of creation nothing more. The creation of all things or just the creation of the universe, or just the creation of subtonic particles that made the universe.

I am probably just a ranting idiot with an idea, but it makes sense to me.

That is a great idea.

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Religion will always be around. We cannot comprehend everything. We won't ever know what triggered the big bang. I mean, if there was nothing there, what triggered it?

What's interesting is that scientists try harder and harder to trace down all the events after the big bang. I don't think it can be done.


As long as we cannot understand everything, there will be religion.

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