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@rickthestick2

No, what I said was that science supersedes faith.

Religion is composed of two things:

1) Culture
2) Faith

I have no problem with culture. Faith is what I have a problem with.


"Oh, and thanks to religion and Faith, Human beings have morality, reason, and laws. Did Science bring that?"

Morality can be derived from Social Darwinism. We are nice because it increases our chances for survival, not because some magician in the sky has set rules. Morality is not absolute, it is relative.

When some murdering madman goes around killing people it is bad from our perspective because it threatens our lives. When we are cornered by a murder it becomes good from our perspective to kill the murder in order to save our life. From the murdering madman's perspective it could be good because they get a chemical rush. From our perspective this person is mentally unstable. From the madman's perspective, they are simply following their DNA. Is their DNA bad or good? Neither, it simply isn't conducive of survival.

"To gain higher understanding of things, people need to think."

And that is exact opposite of faith.