Is Science the new relgion?

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Science is all about enabling people. religion is only about restricting people. they are diametrically opposed.

Doesnt every religion claim to enable people? How did the christians who led the civil rights movement restrict people? The US is founded on christian principles(this will draw fire ) You confuse organized churches with the religions they claim to represent.

religion is the realm of the ignorant and frightened, while science is the realm of those who want to know just to know.

There you. Anyone who doesnt believe as you is either a fool or a heretic. Scientist KNOW very little. Especially when you consider how much there is they dont know. Yet you are willing to follow them as if there word were gods.

Please cite examples of other sciences that are treated unfairly. Last I checked, there's serious research going into proving/disproving things as diverse as ki, Chinese herbalism, etc.

That indeed is a recent development. Still until they are proven to our liking their junk-heresy.

'm not aware of any religion that allows all of its tenets to be challenged. Even Buddhism has some holy cows.

Sounds like the Global warming cult

"Best guess" is the misleading part of that statement. You start by guessing, you progress by testing, you finish by having other people reproduce your work so's they know you're not on crack.

Religion has developed over similar lines or do you think the bible is an original document containing only old jewish tales? I want to see you reproduce global warming other than on some computer program designed by who? Scientists?

[Zaknafien]

Humanism is far superior to any religion that's ever graced this earth. Religion ruins everything and has caused more suffering in human history than any political extremism. Religion only restricts people --dont do this, dont do that, "God" said so. Its ridiculous. Science enables people by helping them live longer, fuller lives, and expands our understanding of the universe in which we live.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Religion without political power behind it is pretty much helpless. Look at christianity before Rome took up the cross.

[Lemur]

Sounds like the Global warming cult

Oh dear lord, is that what this is all about? You don't like the global warming theorists? One of the nice things about science is that opponents are free to publish contradictory and challenging papers. Such has been done. Such is being done. If you're angry at Al Gore, there are shorter ways around the barn than an intellectually dishonest thread about how science and religion are the same animal.

Religion has developed over similar lines or do you think the bible is an original document containing only old jewish tales? I want to see you reproduce global warming other than on some computer program designed by who? Scientists?

Again with the global warming. Let me get this straight, you want to see global warming "reproduced"? Using something other than technical people (sometimes called "scientists") and computers? Would an army of alchemists using abaci and astrolabes be more to your liking? Some of your rhetorical flourishes are weird, Gawain.

And are you saying that the Pentateuch was written according to some sort of unrecognized scientific precept? THat's going to irritate both fundamentalists and humanists to no end.