Monday January 1, 2007
People's fascination for religion and superstition will disappear within a few decades as television and the internet make it easier to get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today.
Philosopher Daniel Denett believes that within 25 years religion will command little of the awe it seems to instil today. The spread of information through the internet and mobile phones will "gently, irresistibly, undermine the mindsets requisite for religious fanaticism and intolerance".
Biologist Richard Dawkins said that physicists would give religion another problem: a theory of everything that would complete Albert Einstein's dream of unifying the fundamental laws of physics. "This final scientific enlightenment will deal an overdue death blow to religion and other juvenile superstitions."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1980978,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
Thoughts?
2007-01-10 06:05:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why are there people who use all the gaps in scientific theory as a reason to say it was some entity? The only thing that ties religion to reality in the first place is the bible or whatever books were written for them.
We've disproved most of everything in it. So trying to say some missing part in a scientific theory means it exists is not acknowledging the truth because in their belief they must not question that it doesn't exist as so much to that is does based on the ideal of faith.
Much inbreed knowledge to one book and metaphors leave imagination to be an indestructible theory but, even so the metaphors can only be stretched so far.
Atheism is not a religion
"Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that (generally) involve a faith in a spiritual nature and a study of inherited ancestral traditions, knowledge and wisdom related to understanding human life. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to faith as well as to the larger shared systems of belief." -WIKIPEDIA
please learn to read in context. Atheist do not believe in spirits, faiths, rituals. We follow a belief so it is a belief.
Faith is about as eternal as mythology. The truth will prevail through logic and theory when experimentation is impossible.
I don't think ending religion will stop war. We have war for humanly desires and survival.
But, I do believe education will end ignorance very soon in fact. People will not be left to one book to decide everything that is ethical and to considered good for everyone. Time is always bringing change so are ideals must change with it to adapt to circumstance. The only thing people will conserve is ignorance.
2007-01-10 06:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by obscure 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They fail to realize that the majority of humanity are willfully and intentionally ignorant. It is easier not to think at all, so most people lazily let their various holy books do the 'thinking' for them.
Look how long we've been fighting over evolution, which is literally the second most supported theory in all of science (The COBE data on the microwave background and the theory of the big bang technically trumps Evolution -- it was the first time that the data were calculated prior to observation... and the observation fit the predictions ... PERFECTLY).
2007-01-10 06:13:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What do you recommend you do not understand how religions can end war? All religions i've got studied recommend the concepts to end war, maximum fairly, "Do unto others as you have them do unto you." alongside with this is love and kindness to others etc. i've got faith if perhaps human beings could heed their holy books they could discover it has a message that would do away with all the strife.
2016-10-30 13:22:46 · answer #3 · answered by wolter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My thought is that Dennett and Dawkins are speaking opinions based strictly from their own philosophical presuppositions. I mean, look at it with open eyes: Dawkins is a biologist, not an expert in everything; and his answer has nothing to do with biology, and implies complete understanding in all areas of science, as well as exhaustive understanding of the universe. A degree in biology does not make one an expert to speak on those things.
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2007-01-10 06:10:35 · answer #4 · answered by Gary B 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's unrealistic to think religion is dying. Religion deals with the things that we can never know, not from science or from the internet. Religion tells us what will happen to us when we die and it tells us that we have a connection to something or someone regardless of how lonely we might be. That's a very powerful psychological hold.
2007-01-10 06:11:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a little optimistic. The fundamentalists of many faiths will not easily give up their beliefs, and it just might make them even more dangerous. Some future christian cult leader might make David Koresh look like Winnie the Pooh!
2007-01-10 06:10:49 · answer #6 · answered by vertical732 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Religion" may fade, but not faith. In the end, science will not be able to answer everything.
Simple law of physics says you cannot create something from nothing. Thus, at the end, Big Bang or what ever, something existed, that science will never be able to determine its origins.
Faith is eternal, and religions do not start wars, people do. Their fanaticism and their intolerance. War is man made, and only man can ended it.
2007-01-10 06:28:49 · answer #7 · answered by yoeme01 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Silly. There is no such thing as "no religion". Even athiests practice a religion - "athiesm". It's a world view, just like Islam or Christianity. The U.S. Supreme Court recognized Secular Humanism as a religion several years ago. So that article you posted is irrelevent right off the bat.
Incidentally, science is simply our shorthand observations of the way nature (God) normally behaves. As flawed as we are as human beings, science is only as good as we are as observers. The "big bang" theory to the origin of the universe is correct: God said it, and "Bang!"... it happened.
2007-01-10 06:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by The Truth Hurts! Ouch! 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Yes.
Zyprexa (use only as directed, see a doctor) can speed the process by treating delusional schizoid mental disorders)
2007-01-10 06:10:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the sooner the fairy tales are gone the better for the planet no holy fairy tale wars just normal wars over greed and land
2007-01-10 06:11:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋