Would Religion Survive a Resurrection?

[Jay520]

neerdowell said:

If you blacked out science would it survive?

 Even if religion didn't survive after a blackout that doesn't indicate a lack of basis as much as it does just how open people are to influence (since they would just blindly accept whatever took religion's place).

For this matter, is most people's faith in science honestly based around their own understanding or are they simply taking somebody's word for it? Would this mean that science is just as much without basis as religion since it is passed down through others?

 Let people have their faith. It's no different than you wishing to retain your own belief in science. For the record, science is only "provable" by the laws of science, it's self-fulfilling, in the same manner as any other form of "logic". However, it only makes sense if you accept its underlying premises, much in the same manner that religion only makes sense if you accept the notion of supernatural factors.

Science requires no faith. It's quite the opposite actually; science promotes skeptism. Science is merely making observations in the most objective way possible. We know science is correct most of the time because we can have different people perform tests and we can see if what science says is true. 

Even if science gets something wrong, that wouldn't disprove science. Science is not defined as being absolutely correct all of the time. Science is the quest for knowledge. So if sceince does get something wrong, we would still learn something. We would learn what's not correct, which can oftentimes still teach us mistakes and could push us closer to the truth. So it's still science.

You make science out to be some created concept which some people don't believe in. Science is the quest for knowledge and is a natural part of humanity. The term 'science' was just attached to it to make it easier to communicate. If science is destroyed, it would always be 'recreated' as people try to make sence of the world. When people make claims and find out that they're false, then they won't believe those claims. If people make claims and test that they're true, then they would believe those claims.

And you can see for yourself how helpful science has been. Computers, internet, buildings, phones, television, etc. All made possible by science. A lack of science would have made it impossible for our species to advance.