i could expand on what i mean by this qn but i want to see what people come up with without any more input..
2006-09-03 22:33:30 · 11 answers · asked by lazydazy 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
well now im gona add more details what i mean by this is that there are like in religion a lot theories in science .. yes they are tested out but a lot them are still theories ... although sicence has bought a lot to the world ... a scientific "fact" could be proved to be wrong even 2mrw for example when it was discovered that the earth was round instead of flat as previously thought...
2006-09-03 22:52:26 · update #1
Science was actually a religion way before it was a subject in school. The 'Alchemist' is what they used to call that type of person. Science or chemistry was so amazing to them that they worshipped it. Hope this answers your question!
2006-09-03 23:39:14 · answer #1 · answered by amanda b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was back in the 50s when people though science and technological progress could and would solve it all. At the time it was glorious to be an engineer or a scientist, and those people were often heros in b-series or real films.
we've come back a long ways since then. Part of the reasons probably include the Nuclear Bomb (people became scared of science), and global pollution and environmental disasters.
As a result and at least until recently, engineers and scientists have largely become un-cool in the popular culture, they're often not well paid jobs, and math and science are also not popular in schools, which is unfortunaly leading to a society where less and less people understand even the basics of how the world works (and thus can be lied to easily by any politician).
It would be nice if science came back a bit.
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2006-09-04 05:40:13 · answer #2 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For centuries science and religion has been at war with each other eg. Galileo getting imprisoned for being blasphemous after claiming the earth revolves around the sun.
If you read Dan Browns: Angels and Demons, it highlights this cause.
So science will never be a "new religion", but will simply at times gain more supporters than religion.
At the moment science seems to physically have more to offer than religion, which only offers spiritual guidance, so more people will be backing science as appose to religion in this day and age.
2006-09-04 05:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anria A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean "Scientology"? It's a cult, created by curtain Hollywood actors, but not all of them are Scientologist.
Scientology is where one believes they're here by an alien race, like we’re livestock. Nothing more than extraterrestrial experiments in one way.
Have you ever heard of Silvia Browne? She's on Montel on Wednesdays I believe.
This cult is about your soul being in another moral vessel in a previous life as well.
The last paragraph of the second link explains somewhat I've just said.
Science itself is not a religion.
Science and Scientologist is not the same thing, they just happen to have close relations between the way the word is spelled and nothing more.
2006-09-04 07:07:20 · answer #4 · answered by - 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think a definition of religion is required before one can answer this.
I would say that a 'religion' involves certain things such as faith in a superior being or beings, a code of conduct in worship, a moral code and the dissemination of stories and philosophy which support those things.
Since 'science' (and that in itself is a very general, hazy term) is not defined as above - if you think it is, add more details to the question - it can't be considered a 'religion'.
2006-09-04 05:40:50 · answer #5 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, you could consider a religion anything that you give your life to. Have you ever heard of the religion of politics? Or the religion of war? If you hold to an idea that you regularly give your time and energy to, or make sacrifices for, then you have a religion.
2006-09-04 05:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science and religion are total opposites. Science requires logical thinking and critical examination. Religion relies on fairy tales and superstition.
2006-09-04 06:33:35 · answer #7 · answered by stevewbcanada 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science is a tool--the means to an end.
Religion is both means and end.
2006-09-04 05:39:41 · answer #8 · answered by batch93 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes!for many it is.in religion you cannot understan each and every thing unless you reach that height when every thing is clear.when people cannot they go for thing which is scientifically proven thus making science as their religion.
2006-09-04 05:42:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No! science talks about how and religion talks about why!
2006-09-04 05:35:46 · answer #10 · answered by M M 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋