IF science can explain everything.?

Question

Alright if science can explain everything, i mean everything, would there still be religion? If science can explain everything, the supernatural would just become a part of nature. So would science in effect wipe out religion if it can explain everything.
This of course is a hypothetical question, assuming science does explain everything.

I never said science explains everything, some of you read my question wrong. I meant, if there was a point in time where science does explain everything, then would it wipe out religion? I mainly ask this question because evolution tries to answer the Meaning of Life, but as good as its theory is, religion always seems to try to provide another answer for it.
If science does answer and prove everything beyond resonable doubt, would there still be religious folk who try to answer an answered question with their understanding?

Answer 1

I don't think so. If science and metaphysics ever merged, and science could "explain" God, then it would be science, not metaphyics, that would give way to a broader understanding of reality.

Answer 2

IF science could explain everything, then it would be the end of most religion. There may be a handful of people who would still adhere to some form of it.

But, science doesn't even begin to explain everything and barely anything we do know. We see how things work but not how it all began. I say evolution because, lets be serious, there are only two viable philosophies out there. And when the term science is used, people on this board are inferring evolution, whether they admit it or not.

Science never will be able to explain the beginning. Whether it's the solar system, the body or life in general. Impossible. The more we know, the more questions arise with regards to evolution.

Answer 3

Science explains many things and will continue to explain many things. At one time acupuncture was a fantasy since science could not explain it. Now it does, to some extent. Karma is the same way. On the surface it does not make sense. But neither does Jungian Collective consciousness. But more and more people are beginning to realize that there is something happening and that is as good as any explanation, for now. But as many people have said science does not give a rat's patootie about god, but in its progress toward intelligence and information it disproves the more absurd ideas about god. The christian and Islamic god's have been well disproven, they just don't know enough to lay down and die. BUT, there "might" be a god, but he walked away from this universe untold trillions of years ago.

Answer 4

I think science will eventually (if intelligent beings survive on this planet long enough) be able explain everything except why the universe exists at all, and science will never be able to prove that God exists or does not exist.

There will always be humans with the need to believe in something bigger than themselves. Maybe it starts with trusting and relying on parents as a child. Because of the mindblowing facts and wonders of the universe and our own tiny planet, it is my scientific guess that there is much more to the universe than we can ever explain no matter how much of it we will be able to explain. It's like black holes, we did not know they existed because we could not scientifically detected them until recently. So I believe in God who has always existed and was not created. God created this universe as we know it, and any others which existed billions of times before. Believing in God and understanding science are completely logical and compatible operations of the brain.

The concept of God is so abstract, even such a uniquely personal concept or experience, that no science, metaphysics, philosophy, or anything else can ever define God, or prove that God does not exist. Just like we will never be able to prove a reason for why the universe exists.

As science has advanced and explained, for example why the sun is not a God, it has pushed the "current" concept of God ever further out beyond the reach of the physically known universe as it should have, or ever deeper into the secrets of the human brain and psyche as it should. The better we understand ourselves and the universe, the better we can understand why so many people believe in God, but not necessarily in religion (which was created by man).

In my opinion religion is dead, not God. How can you say God is dead if you never believed that God existed in the first place?

Answer 5

It hasn't explained everything *yet*.

Every day, science is better able to explain more and more, and in the years to come, it will be able to explain things that we view as unexplainable now. While we believe that there IS a scientific explanation FOR everything, that doesn't necessarily mean that we *know* (or in some cases ever will know) all of those explanations.

Science probably wouldn't wipe out religion even if it could explain everything, because there are people out there that want to continue with their religious beliefs, and will reject and deny science in favor of their superstition, regardless of the amount of evidence right in front of them.

Answer 6

A. Science can't explain everything.

B. What you describe is happening. In the middle ages there were no scientists or science - everything was explained by religion and there weren't any other explanations. No one was anything other than christian in Europe. Now we have both religion and science, but science is winning the explanation battle and will continue to win because it is based on evidence. Still people will always believe what they want, its the nature of human conciousness.

Answer 7

Science is an art to prove physical phenomenons based on some principals derived through a long period.Engineering is the applied & practical phase of science to make world comfortable or dis comfortable .

Technology is the acceptable application of Engineering.Its a learning process through physical,biological,chemical behavior of substances where the time can solve & prove the whole phenomenon physically.

Religion is a doctrine.Your laboratory is your mind.Religion leaders teach masses on certain principles based on their broad visions through whats happening in the society.

Some scientists have surpassed the laboratory findings or proof s and predict the out come well before its derived or invented.

Science can not explain everything.Those who think in line with scientific principals can prove many concepts of course with examples from the nature.

Answer 8

No. Religions would still exist. Just look at some of the things science has already proven that many people don't accept just because a book from thousands of years ago says something else. So I'm saying that WHEN science eventually explains everything, people will still dispute it.

Answer 9

Who ever said science explains everything?Science explains much,much is a mystery.They are working on it,and some mysteries will remain just that,mysteries.What it DOES explain,it explains very well,much better than old "holy books" such as how all the species came to be.THAT,science explains VERY well,with multiple fields of science all converging in agreement on it.Does the freely admitted fact that science can't explain everything somehow give a single shred,one iota,a teeny,weeny bit,of increased credibility of your biblical god?Not in the least.At most it could sort of be an offhand argument for deism.But deism is every bit as incompatible with the Christian version of god as atheism,so,no argument there

Answer 10

Remember - one big part of religion is being close minded - not to read any other religions literature or listen to anything others with different or no faith say...

But I think a lot of people still believe because a fear is a very powerful thing. I can't remember the name, but someone a long time ago said why not just go ahead and believe in god because if there is no god nothing will happen when we die, but if so, better safe than sorry.

But I can't stand all the happy go lucky jesus stuff so I can't do that.

Answer 11

I don't think science would eradicate religion. Well, not immediately anyway. There would surely still be the absolute fundamentalists who, even in the face of overwhelming indisputable evidence, would not abandon their faith due to the widespread human fear of not being able to accept that there is nothing after death. Regardless of hard facts, there will always be people who cannot accept them for reasons that mean more to them than the truth.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic. I do hope I am wrong and one day we can live without religion.