| S.Peelman said: All religions are born from the need to explain things. During each time when a religion was created (well, 'thought of' really), people couldn't explain something in everyday life because science hadn't advanced very far yet. |
This may be true about long extinct pantheonic belief systems from long ago (Jupiter is the reason for thunder and lightning, etc...); but this is not at all what religions like Christianity, Buddhism, Confucian based religions, and what many other long surviving religions are about. They're about transformation and the philosophies that aid in attaining that transformation. For example; they all aim to rid feelings of greed and idolatry (idolatry could be something as simple as videogame fandom , something I confess I still suffer from =P - although only on the Internet); now this is not something science does - science is a process by which we can better understand our physical universe by forming hypotheses; and then through experimentation we can test them; and if correct, we can form scientific theories - and this is a completely goal different than religion.
There are those who feel the two can work together to find deeper truths. For example, the Big Bang Theory validated the Cosmological and Teleological arguments for the existence of God, that have existed since Plato and Aristotle. According to the Big Bang Theory the Universe had a beginning (13.7 billion years ago), and also that the physical laws and quantities of energy, matter, dark, energy, dark matter, etc... are actually quite specific. If we simulated a Big Bang, and the physical properties and ratios of physical particles and energies were randomized, only once in 10 to the 50th power would we get a Universe where solid matter was possible.
"Science without religion is lame (crippled), and religion without science is blind" -Albert Einstein
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
