If at the dawn of mankind , people embraced science as they did religions , what would things be like today ?

Question

I'm asking in the religious section too .

Answer 1

It is really sad to think that people were alienated more towards the religion than to the science.
Had that thing happened, we had been rid of all the religions of today, earth might have been a better place to live in.
Common sense might have prevailed over the superstition and myth.
We might have ventured far into space and explored the other species living somewhere in this universe.
List may be endless of the assumptions for this situation,but in brief, we might be having better communication and relation with each other.

Answer 2

I disagree with Isis, as religion indirectly played a pivotal role in the development of science. In many cases science was kept back due to the religious persicution it may have brought to the discoverer.

For example if you went against the church and said that the earth revolved around the sun (at the time the sun was thought to revolve around the earth), it was considered blasphemous. The same thing went for those who thought that the world was round.

Science itself was labeled as Philosophy for the majority of the history of man, only because some scientific facts and theories went against mainstream religious views.

To answer the question proposed above, if religion was never discovered, I feel we as humans would have made vast progress in the fields of science. Just think, it took us about 40,000 years to get to where we are today. Most of our breakthroughs as a species happened only in the past 4,000. If we would have gained a better foothold early on, without some of the setbacks that were mentioned above, I think we would be 1,000's of years more advanced that we are today.

Answer 3

With the Bible as my source:Religion and science were coexistent and equal. For example, how could the parting of the Red Sea be considered, recognised as a miracle, if certain scientific assumptions were not made?Why were both religion and science disregarded when Noah attempted to warn the people?And his ark was built in certain measures, not arbritrary, to withstand the flood.On and on.Enter gods, which God abhorred.Consider the pyramids, built physically specified, to entomb the dead, preserve a god relationship and to harness cosmic energy. (and so far, tho I've been unread for awhile, I dont think there is an explanation HOW they were built.)
I believe that there is now a valley between religion and science. Science, in many ways became unGodly.And yet religion has also turned, so who is to say, between the two, which is further from God?
God scattered man and made one unable to communicate to another when man tried to build a structure to take them to Heaven. Why? Could they have possibly succeeded if they had the science correct to do so? Of course. Heaven is a spiritual (religion)place and a true physical place (therefore subject to science).
I dont think science was honored (your meaning of embraced?) as religion, but I believe that science and religion were considered intrinsic one to the other.

Answer 4

In the dawn of mankind there was no science.
Science, religion and philosophy were not clearly
separated from each other until much later. There
was technology from a relatively early time, that is,
people discovered the ways to do things that worked best under their local conditions, but there
was no well developed program of research to
make new discoveries, it was mostly trial and
error.

Answer 5

Half of the population will be mad without peace of mind. I am not against science, but one requires peace of mind first for which control of mind, passions, love to all mankind is reqiuired, for which different religions appeared. Nothing in this world has come just like that. Because people required to overcome their sorrow, or share happiness with their kith and kin, religion appeared.
VR

Answer 6

But they did. The wheel and self awareness were among the earliest human discoveries. Science and religion have be part of our social evolution ever since. Even when one dominated the other, both co-existed and influenced our development. To be fully human we need both science and religion. They are equally valid expressions of our creative genius as humanity.

Answer 7

Religion and science were not separated in the West until the 1700s.
Your questions lacks knowledge of history.

Answer 8

its a refreshing idea, but mankind created god about a millisecond before god created man. when mankind first became a conscious entity, one of the first questions would have to be why am i here? what gives my life purpose? that is when god created man, as soon as man was able to foresee his own end he needed something to make his life worthwhile and to give purpose ie god.

Answer 9

I will be answering your question from mars