Is science a religion itself?

Answer 1

I think so...science or religion, both are largely theoretical, at the root of it all is people asking "Why?", but different approaches.... Science though, sets out to try to prove things out in physical terms, while religion is more about feelings. Even so, I find much of science just as speculative as religion, really.....and for those who feel it has to be either/or, not both, they can be just as devoted, whichever side they're on....Personally, I just view science as yet another form of revelation....and view the "real" answer as lying somewhere in between the two....

Answer 2

Religion are the rules you govern yourself by, and how you see the world. It's how you live. Science can become this for some people, but generally it is not thought of to be a "way of life".

Although, people tend to assume that science is a great deal more important than it should be at times... There was a psychological study done on how people respond to meaningless tasks "in the name of science". They were told to write out answers to simple arithmetic problems, and then tear their sheet of answers into seven pieces. After a couple hours, the researcher got bored and left. When he came back, they were still at it. They continued for four more hours, until they were finally told to stop. The tasks were pointless. There was nothing to be learned from them, but the participants continued because they believfed it was for the good of science. Scary, huh?

Answer 3

An interesting question. Religion and Science are two different bananas. As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences. Science produces knowledge and indirectly means of action. It leads to a methodical action if definite goals are set up in advance.

As regards, Religion, one is generally agreed that it deals with goals and evaluations in general with the emotional foundation of human thinking and acting. These are not predetermined by the inalterable hereditary disposition of the human species. Religion is concerned with man's attitude toward nature at large with the establishing of ideals for the individual and communal life and with mutual human relationship.

Have a wonderful day.

Answer 4

No religion is a science. That is - science is all encompassing and the first people to invent a religion were scientists "of a sort" . They just got their conclusions wrong and we have had to live with the consequences.

Agnosticism is a better science than all the religions provided of course that you remain a SEEKER.

Answer 5

In the mind science is as much tied to fiction and imagination as it is cognitive process. There is a danger that the mind may drift into futuristic obsessions and off the path of realistic and necessitated purpose. In that false positive condition it could be regarded as a religious mentality and swing to the negative when challenged.So, in other words, being a scientific person does not guarantee one hundred percent mental coherency.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 6

No.

If you read the basic requirements of a religion, it becomes clear that science as a philosophy or as a practice does not meet the criteria of the definition. For example, science does not require any prayer or rituals. Science does not require any mystical experiences, quite the opposite where empirical evidence is a requirement.

Some philosophies though can be categorized as a religion.

Answer 7

Come on now, do you really think they're all that different? What rock have you been hiding under? Science is hypothetically based on propositions that people have come to believe in, proven by their experiences, i.e. it is faith, perhaps differently based, but faith nonetheless. Science has rules that are followed (LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF RELIGION AND WHERE THE WORD COMES FROM!!!) Religion isn't all about God, as a matter of fact quite a lot of people practice it with none of His input whatsoever. Science isn't all about material things we can see , touch, and feel, or Einstein wouldn't have got to square one, much less any of the quantum physicists who are perhaps the real theologians of our day. The two aren't different worlds, or even opposite ways of looking at the same world. If you really want to be technical about it Science is about knowing things and Religion is about what we do with what we know. Those afraid of Science are certain not to know God, and those uptight about Religion are very sloppy in their scientific method.

[If one goes at one's Religion scientifically one finds fascinating and wonderful things about the world God made, and far more exact, truthful, and different understanding of what they call Scripture. If one goes at one's Science religiously one begins with real questions about the base and outcome of one's investigations, a foundation that leads to exacting research and beyond to far greater discoveries, wonder, and revelations.]
[And if you differentiate on the basis of feelings and emotions, what do you do with psychologists, behaviorists, and theorists who work with these things, are they not scientists? And as to physical proofs what do you do with the Biblical archaeologists, entemologists, liturgists, and scriptologists who work and train practioners of religion on the basis of careful investigation and physical evidences, are they not valid?]
[The Pablum, Hokum, and animosity of what has come to be commonly called both Science and Religion is nothing more, nor less than Smoke and Mirrors, popular fanaticism and fantasy.]

Pax et Bonum.

Answer 8

Depends on how much faith you put into it. It can be a useful tool or blind belief in whatever's in a science book. Anything that is approached with enough craziness and fanatacism can be ruined and become destructive. Science is not exempt from this.

Answer 9

No, it is not.

Religious precepts generally do not change no matter what the evidence for or against them.

Scientific precepts change according to whether evidence, including repeatable experiments, confirms or disconfirms them.

Religious doctrines have much to say about how to interpret the meaning of existence, e.g. the Christian notion that we are all sinners in need of redemption.

Science silent about the meaning of existence.

Jim G.

Answer 10

Science is the denial of religion, it's mans sad pathetic excuse to try to make some meaning out of the universe...so in that way it is like relgion