is science, education and new thinking making religion obsolete?

Question

while most people try to adjust their thinking to suit new ideas, i find some people just cant handle the fact that there is no big brother up in the sky to cuddle them. Could this be the reason why some people are joining very rigid forms of religions such as islam and scientology that actually takes control of their lives?
is it a way of trying to forget that fact that there is no external God to life, as sigmund freud wrote?
dont you think that god is more of an ideology thats internal to life than external?

Answer 1

I think it is but it's moving extremely slowly. The idea of 'eternal salvation' with (a) god is just too good to give up.

Answer 2

No, they enhance it. You are under the impression that science, education, and probably reason itself is opposed to religion and nothing could be further from the truth. Science only deals in things it can readily test, observe, and experiment with, it doesnt deal in philosophical or religious Q's. Asking science to figure out religion would be like asking your dog to rebuild your transmission.

Do you know for a fact that Jesus is not LORD and going to redeem us? Can you prove God doesnt exist? No. You can present evidence and try to make a case that he doesnt but in the end you have know way of being sure because you cannot test that assumption.

Wrong again, Islam IS monotheistic and believes in an "external god." People turn to all sorts of things, that doesnt make them true.

No, I know as well as other believers that god is true because he has revealed himself to us through prayer, the Bible, the church, and even miracles! The problem is you have to have faith in God to believe and follow him, not scientific proof. Many people recieved proof in the Bible but it did not lead to having faith.

Answer 3

I think that religion and science appeal to different areas of human experience (or, if you prefer, to different types of brain function).

Religion is intuitive (though it has an intellectual element), subjective, emotional, transcendent; it appeals to the yearning of people to be part of something bigger than themselves in (as noted) an intuitive and emotional way. I view religion as primarily a "hindbrain" activity.

Science is intellectual (though it has intuitive elements), objective, analytical, and also transcendent; it appeals to the desire to catagorize, evaluate, and understand the universe around us. I view science as primarily a "forebrain" activity.

Both modes of functioning are integral parts of the human experience. For that reason, I think that religion (or spirituality of some sort) is highly unlikely to disappear in the near, or even moderately distant, future.

There are some religions that don't buy into the "big daddy in the sky" theory and which also embrace science as our best tool for understanding the physical world around us. In such faiths, spirituality is viewed as a different approach to the mysteries of existence, one that works in tandem with science to produce greater understanding.

The concepts of religion deal with non-physical things, things that are impossible to analyze using the scientific method of inquiry (or at least very hard to analyze using that system). This occasionally leads to great frustration on both sides.

To me, the ideology of God is both internal and external, since I believe that the universe is itself the body of God and that no separation from God is possible (or Goddess, as the case may be). However, I also believe that the universe follows laws that can be discerned through science, and that science will continue to illuminate and expand our understanding of the world around us.

Hope that made sense. :-)

Answer 4

science and religion are incomplete and will merge w/ the understanding of gravitational energies making up light and matter. the external part of it comes into play with the ability to time-travel, in which man can prove it's possible to actually visit god, or reach into a black hole and pull out a possible future, in which the speed of light is slightly faster. if u mean religion as in shape up or burn baby, burn, then ya thatll become horribly obsolete, but other buddhist type references to meditation will be looked upon with vast awe and wonderment as to how man could know this and how true the tales are of how they were known.

Answer 5

Maybe a long time ago people needed god, and god was there for them. And now god sees that we can stand on our own two feet and we can determine right from wrong on our own, so god now watches its creation. Not in judgement, but is awe.
Just an irrational thought.

Answer 6

Some Christians, like Episcopalians, are really into the "inner God" concept. I don't like it, because as eloquent as it may be, it empowers people who believe much more supernatural ideas.

I think religion was obsolete long ago, personally.

Answer 7

No. Science helps improves the world around you, religion -- improve your personality.

Of course, both religion and science are just tools, and both can be used to make things worse.

Answer 8

It pretty much is i dont understand how they can still follow it when most of its been proven false

Answer 9

or
perhaps it is because they have reason to believe otherwise