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Re: thoughts on science and religion - August 22nd 2009, 07:26 PM
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Huh? Scientific research is meant to be done objectively, use a gradient of scientific knowledge, etc... . How can you obtain this if you use something that isn't objective, that doesn't use a gradient of scientific knowledge, etc...?
What I mean is that religion tends to consider things science hasn't got to yet. Before science religion tried to explain everything, then as science progressed religion gradually adapted. Nowadays the things religion mainly focuses on are life after death and metaphysical beings, unlike the earlier religions that claimed miracles where being produced everywhere and the virgin mary was visiting a town every month.

So you could consider religion as extremely avantgard science. And don't say it isn't based on fact, it is horever it doesn't have as rigorous a fact-checking mechanism as science.