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[ParisFashion]

Religion vs Science what is more important and closer to the ultimate truth?

[Isak]

Of course science is closer.
Just look around you everything you use daily is based on science.
Now tell me what is religion good for?

[xXx]

Religion is good for your soul and for society!
Did you see the Katrina hurricane?

[link]

there should be no comparison of the two .... both are enscapable aspects of human existence that basically keeps us sane.

[Admin]

there should be no comparison of the two ....

Why? For some people science is religion... like dialectal materialism was in soviet union.

[xXx]

Mate materialism is not a religion. It has no god.
A religion must have a god, doesn't it?

[Genius]

i think that science is just another method of examining and explaining the world around us. And i truly consider science as just another religion, such as Christianity or Islam.

[Mat]

Science is the bottom up view of the world, whereas Religion is the top down view.

If truth is the object of both, then their views will not be inconsistent.

Science can never know if it is true, it is arrived at by induction.

Religion claims it is true, its claims can be verified by deduction.

[Mr]

I would have thought that scientific analysis was deductive. Science's claims are modest, it would seem, when compared to the promises of religion.

[Nidle]

Science is inductive because it generalizes from partial evidence. Religion assumes its basic premises and uses theology to argue deductively. Science claims that it is self-correcting while religion claims it is infallible from the get-go.

[Logo]

Science gives knowliges based on reasones, wheres religion gives absolute truth. Science and religion are opposite to one another.

[StarTrek]

Religion is an opium for the masses, it was invented to keep people in control by ruler class.

[VaBank]

Science gives knowliges based on reasones, wheres religion gives absolute truth. Science and religion are opposite to one another.

What do you mean by absolute truth?

[WarChild]

Religion is an opium for the masses.

... as well as the myth about human rights

[Frodo]

Absolute truth is when you don't have the luxury of doubt.

[WarChild]

Absolute truth is when you don't have the luxury of doubt. 8)

Being able to have doubts is a gift.

[Paris Jobs]

Can't agree more to what was written above

[Planetman]

Religion is an opium for the masses.

... as well as the myth about human rights

How do you explain the existence of the universe then?

[Maximus]

Of course science is closer.
Just look around you everything you use daily is based on science.
Now tell me what is religion good for?

we all say that by the time we get in trouble! Remember the words you say when you're run out of options! You say "God, please help me!" Is that a good argument?

[tulaka]

I can't chose an answer in regards to which one is closer to me. I believe one depends on the other. Still, I place religion higher than science.

[Elis]

Religion is an opium for the masses, it was invented to keep people in control by ruler class.

Are you an atheist?

[mixi]

I can't chose an answer in regards to which one is closer to me. I believe one depends on the other. Still, I place religion higher than science.

The same with me

[Maximus]

The point is that we don't have to think only about religion. We should be believers, but, at the same time, we should find reasonable explainaitions for the things happening arround us.

[Cold_as_ice]

Can anybody explain me how can the Bible argue the existence of dinosaurs. It says that humans were the first to appear on this Earth, while scientsts assert these were the dinosaurs, whom do we believe? There is only one true in this matter.

[july_ichat]

For me....


Religion refers to the bible.....or scripture

while Science refers to the scientific method in order to get facts...



thanks...

[parisorbust]

More likely than not you cannot arrive at the ultimate truth by either science or religion.

Monotheistic religions are tautological and prove only themselves. You cannot deduce the truth from their self proclaimed truths.

Science is refutable. A falsified position leads to a better, more solid position. Until something better comes along, it is the latest position which people base their world knowledge on.

Science makes far more sense, but you will still have existential dilemmas. If you are a strong person, a searcher, a skeptic, this is the route for you.

If you want to stop searching for the truth and just accept one regardless of what common sense tells you, than religion is your answer. It is about faith. It will help you guide your life.

They both have their benefits. They both can lead to terrible consequences. Who wins? I think the correct question is which is better for you.

[aimhigh]

i think we don't need to argue which is important because on my own point of view religion and science are both essential in human existence.

Like Thomas Aquinas who was a great thinker he tried to figure out the relationship between science and religion.

[nbotti]

I'm a radical atheist like Doulgas Adams. I don't think that any kind of god exist.