Is science a religion now?

Question

Is science a religion nowadays? People follow what scientists come out with as doctrine, and we generally have a lot of faith in science, to the extent that we say we have "faith in science". There also seems to be a separation in North American between science and religion.

So is science it's own religion nowadays?

I think I'm going to leave this one open for voting, so make sure you vote.

Answer 1

Science is based on empirical evidence, not faith. It is not a religion, it is the opposite of religion.

Answer 2

You know that one thing God says throughout the Word, is that our people
will worship anything that moves, doesn't move, crawls, flies, screams, laughs, and absolutley the most popular:
Anything that looks "holy".
They will go for just about anything and make a religion out of it.
Science fiction novels are made into religions, little statues of a fat guy, and I saw a documentary on tv where some Asian peoples worship the penis.
Everything and anything that can possibly be a religion, is made a religion.
God says his people love to "go whoring after any strange gods", and boy if thats not the truth, nothing is.
A final note: The controversy between Science and Religion is only with two groups of very loud whiners, both with no knowledge of what they speak of...
There is no controversy between the Bible and Science - none whatsoever.
I study in the original texts, and I tell you there is not one. God loves Science and Mathematics as well. He created them.
The creationists who state that the Bible says the earth is about 6000 years old,
have no knowledge of what the Books says, or else they wouldn't say that.
The Bible states that this earth is eons and eons old; in fact, it tells of an entire earth age before this one...
I'm Christian, and my 7yr old knows of fossils that are older than 6000 years.
No knowledge, period. Its a damn disgrace.

Answer 3

Some people hold scientific opinions dogmatically. They can't conceive of the possibility that they're wrong. They are so dogmatic that they deny the legitimacy of anyone who disagrees with them, regardless of their stature in the scientific community. All such behavior is prejudicial. I suppose that if you believe something with no intent to consider evidence that contradicts you, that is more faith than science. Einstein believed in an intelligent designer, which many evolutionists don’t consider seriously. He said that Einstein doesn't play dice with the universe. He and many other physicist believed that the complexity of the universe made its formation by chance (without an intelligent designer) impossible. They referred to the complexities as they relate to physics, the laws of which the universe depends upon to exist. Without very specific physical properties, in relation to other physical properties, the universe could not exist, and obviously, neither could any life-forms. Einstein also believed that quantum physics and the general theory of relativity could be reconciled, and he tried to do this for 30 years without success. He died believing that he may be wrong; however, when string theory came along, Einstein's belief was again possible. How many people on this site are less qualified and less humble than Einstein?

Answer 4

Christians like to call Science a religion because they believe it belittles the power that Atheists wield when they site it. Unfortunately that contention is pretty weak because in essence it is the same as saying "your source is just as weak as mine" It ends up belittling their own source. Science is just a process. Christians like to point to Scientist who have been wrong in the past and claim that those instances are proof that Science cannot be trusted. However they forget to mention that the only reason that some scientific finding were found to be unreliable, is because the Scientific process proved them to be unreliable.

There will always be tenuous hypothesis in Science, however, over time the process will take care of false contentions.

Compare that with Religion, where contradictions and new beliefs are generally met with violence. Many Christians like to say those days are past, but considder the makers of the recent Jesus Tomb documentary. They received over 1000 death threats even before the documentary aired. When was the last time you heard of a Scientist writing a death threat to another scientist with an opposting view point?

Answer 5

"Believing what scientists tell us" is simply assuming that these educated people have figured something out, which I could verify, if I only could be bothered to and didn't have these other things I'd rather do (like watch a movie). The understanding is that they're sometimes wrong about things.

"Believing what the Bible says" is completely different. The Bible is infallable and therefore it must be correctly interpreted. If you question the Bible, you're not a believer.

So there's quite a bit of difference there.

Answer 6

I think that Secular humanism is a religion since it has religious views and supports science, but there are Christians who are professional scientists so Science as a whole is not. It is merely a realm of study such as English and history.

Answer 7

Not at all. The definition of religion includes having faith in a supernatural power. Science dwells in the natural world, not supernatural.

Answer 8

No, it's a way out of a religion. Science is such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study. Religion is faith.

Answer 9

Science is NOT a religion...Religion MIGHT be a science under philosophy, but would be a social science...its all relevant.
The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 10

To some, I believe it is. Myself, I like to make doubt and cynicism my religion because I don't like to be taken advantage of. If I hang fairly losely to most information I can say things like, "but that's only what I read".