2006-10-23 23:32:10 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thats a really good question, both can influence war and panic, widespread horror.
Both have good and bad points
While science has cured illness and imvpored life over all, it also is behind many weapons, and harmful chemicals.
Many men have killed and died in the name of his faith. If you tell the right person something, he can be as dangerous as a gernade. But faith gives people hope and a meaning for life..
Its hard to say...but id have to say religion.
2006-10-23 23:38:15 · answer #1 · answered by pink_squeaky_doom 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Without doubt, religion. It appeals to superstition and the irrational, hence can frequently lead to conflict over intangibles.
Science, on the other hand is, overall, a force for good - think of all the positive things that science has done in the field of medicine alone.
I appreciate that some will argue "But what about science applied to weapons which kill people?", and I can not ignore that point of view.
However, all weapons are inert until some one decides to use them, and today that is more likely to be the result of a religious dispute on a grand scale.
Speaking as a ordinary person, I would rather we continued to have advances in science than in religion!
2006-10-23 23:46:34 · answer #2 · answered by avian 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is dangerous is to assume that religion and science can be compared in this way. First, neither of these things are the cause for any warfare at all. They may be used to facilitate war, but ultimately, what causes war is something in the heart of man that make him want to exert himself above another man. We might call this 'greed'. So, neither science nor religion is the cause for death, but dangerous greed is. Now, if we must find which one of the two is safer to base our beliefs upon, the answer is both. You see, these two fields of study don't try to examine things in the same way. Science, as we know, is the investigation into the OBSERVABLE things of nature. Religion, or we may use the synonym Theology, is the study of what is unseen, namely God. Therefore, in terms of adopting philosophies, a well rounded person should use religion for his personal investigation of the nature of God, and at the same time use science to observe the physical, natural and observable things of the world.
2006-10-24 01:55:00 · answer #3 · answered by coolguy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although both religion and science have their bad points religion has very few positives compared to science which has saved countless millions of lives and enables our very way of life possible.
Religion is a far more dangerous and negative influence on the world than science.
2006-10-23 23:48:58 · answer #4 · answered by Vanguard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion.
2006-10-23 23:41:43 · answer #5 · answered by anirvanghose 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as geothe said,- nothing is more terrible to see than ignorance in action
and as albert einstein said,- I am loosing sleep at night over the hardness that the human heart gains through education
both science and religion can be responsible for these two sins
anything that errodes the flowering of human values and instills in any individual a lack of reverence for human values is innately dangerous
science and religion can both aid in the flowering of the heart
can both educate the mind
and can both be used as a tool for discrimination, violence and stupidity
no religion asks for discrimination, violence and stupidity
however often the cultures associated with them cultivate such things
no scientist ever made a discovery
hoping to cause mass suffering
at their best religion and science represent the highest flowerings of the human heart and mind
at their worst science and religion are tools of ignorance, anger and malice
education of the heart and the mind are never bad and never dangerous
stupidity, arrogance and a closed heart and mind are
2006-10-24 02:16:25 · answer #6 · answered by ewen sinclair 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is two faces for one coin when the religion makes the science be dangerous.
2006-10-24 06:39:48 · answer #7 · answered by huda a 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is far more dangerous than science. Religion causes more war, conflict and suffering that anything else!
2006-10-24 03:26:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The science of religion or the religion of science, both reinforce ignorance and arrogance to the natural chaos around, false security for the unstable world we have been given and to feel more important than we really are.
2006-10-23 23:54:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that they are both as dangerous as each other. Science kills people, but death isn't the only bad thing that can be done to people. Think of the millions of people persecuted in the name of religion. And some of the biggest massacres are done in the name of religion, such as the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust and others.
2006-10-23 23:43:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋