Unregistered wrote:No, no, no... Religion is for idiots who dont have discovered science, the bible was written to make ppl feel secure and have something to rely on - NO other reason. Today science does all that for us, in two thousand years people will mock us for believeing in what we call "science" as well.
Religion helps (not completely necessary) people develop good morals and a better appreciation for life. You can believe in God and science at the same time. Saying that religion is for insecure people is an ignorant statement. There are many religious scientists out there and to say there aren't is also ignorant. Einstein believed in God and he's thought of as a master of astrophysics and other maths and sciences. I'm sure this post coming from an aetheist would mean more, but I am a Christian and far from naive. Science is there to make us feel secure, not religion. Science makes us feel "secure" because it explains things such as gravity, stars, earthquakes, tornados, and other natural disasters that we could in no way explain without science. Some form of religion has existed since man first stepped foot on this earth. Religion has also been the driving force for the invention of technology for the past 4000 years. In medieval Europe the most advanced technology came from Monks inventing self sufficient proto-factories in their monastaries to try to save labor and time so they would have more time to worship God and spread the word. In Africa 4000 years ago they were smelting iron and using it to create religious figures because they thought of metallurgy as a biological process and religious ritual. They though metallurgy was the earth giving birth to metals. Religious beliefs were the driving force to create monumental structures such as the pyramids and temples in Egypt, Mezoamerica, and India, which required amazing engineering skills. Therefore, religion forced those two areas to develop mathematics and science to an amazing degree to build structures to entomb their leaders with all the necessities of the afterlife and worship their gods. Science can NOT do everything for us. If we didn't have such civilizations striving to invent such advanced mathematics and sciences to build structures to appease the gods we most likely would not have those mathematics today. If anyone posts something about these facts I have plenty of other ones to rant about.
