Which Is A Bigger Threat To Humanity? Science Or Religion?

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Hedra42 said:

o_O.Q said:

but scientific developments are what give people the capacity to cause great harm, if we didn't pollute the atmosphere, for example, global warming and the ridiculous amounts of destruction it has caused ( the loss of coral reefs and marine biodiversity ) and will cause on the future would not happen

Science is about knowledge, religion is about belief. Both, if practiced the wrong way, have, and will continue to cause destruction. Both, if practiced in the right way, can only do good for humanity and the planet we inhabit.

Apply this to your point about science ruining the environment; it is only science used in ignorance that has done that. Science has been used to help us understand how we are ruining the planet, and measure the extent of it, and science is being used to develop ways to help save the planet.

 

"Science is about knowledge, religion is about belief."

have you seen an electron? do you believe they exist? if so why?

 

"Apply this to your point about science ruining the environment; it is only science used in ignorance that has done that."

science is always done with some degree of ignorance when practiced within a particular context for the first time

no one knows everything so there is always some gap in our knowledge with regards to things and that very often carries with it massive potential for harm

 

" Science has been used to help us understand how we are ruining the planet, and measure the extent of it, and science is being used to develop ways to help save the planet."

true i agree, but the planet wouldn't need saving if we didn't cause problems to begin with