| Chairman-Mao said: I apologize for having something to believe in. Obviously that bothers you so I'll stop and accept everything science says is true. Like come on man without religion a lot of people would be worse off. There have been people who go from criminals to good people when they find religion, it gives people something to believe in and keeps them on the right path. It may seem silly to you but it keeps a lot of people from doing bad things. |
The point is that nobody, scientists in primis, have to accept everything science says now as ultimately true. That's because the scientific method is a self-correcting one. You can take past results as temporary truths (hypothesis) to work on new results, but you can also falsify past results unveiling new, deeper truths.
That's not the case of religion: you accept what you're told in a canon that was developed over a few millennia of political and theological struggles.
And while some people might live more happily or behave better under the ideological yoke of a transcendent force overlooking their morality, that has little to do with the idea that the same god created the world. Buddhists and induists have karma as an impersonal force, and buddhists afaik don't believe in a theist creationism. Gnostic christian sects believed that the creation of the world was actually the work of Satan, and still behaved according to a rigid ethical code.
Do you see any particular good coming from people believing that the same invisible force that judges their ethic was also responsible for creating the world?
