I can understand philosophy and science being combined as philosophy often leads to branches of science. However, I don't understand why religion and spirituality are combined with science. I honestly don't mind, as I don't spend some much time here, but it's not as if science and religion/spirituality are by necessity at odds (or in this case have a common ground) and require to be in the same forum topic.
I think, if they were separated, it'd stop a lot of debating and flaming. I believe that debating is perfectly fine, but when people are asking genuine questions, it doesn't help when every topic turns into: "Science disproves religion, there is no God, there's no evidence," when the related topic has absolutely nothing to do with whether God's existence is real.
I believe, philosophy (perhaps -- it is debatable whether philosophy should belong with religion) and science should have their own section where science and philosophy can
co-exist and debate about the existence of God and leave a religion/spirituality section separated from it so that seekers may find genuine help without completely demolishing their threads.
I don't know if anyone agrees with me on it, but it gets irritated going through threads trying to find genuine questions while weeding out the 70000 posts debating the existence of God. It literally seems like EVERY thread turns to that and I figured I'd bring it here to see if anyone agrees with me on this before bringing it elsewhere. However, I realize that posting here will probably (ironically) turn this thread into another thread debating the existence of God.
Thoughts?