Science or Religion. Why not both?

This isn't going to end well

Religion only cause problems

Didn't you play Dead Space!? Unitology will kill us all!

science and religion just dont agree on to many things to get along

because god doesn't exist XD

I believe people will find the balance between these two, if they'll use their brain well.

It depends the on the point of view you take.
If you are agnostic you won't believe in a religious / spiritual but you won't be against it either since it isn't proven false or true.

If you believe that religion has it right, but that just most or all religions are false, then you are still religious (ideas are not supported by fact etc).

If you refuse to believe anything religious and are anti-religon you are likely atheist.

There are too many differences, and both sides (mostly religion) has too many followers that are ignorant and does not care about what other people think.

Also, it's pretty much impossible to be a religious scientist, since most of the work you do contradicts with what you believe in.

I believe in a thing called love.

I believe in something higher, but not in god represented by christians or muslims. You can't mix science and religion. We are technically developed because science and religion are strictly separate. Remember burning people, because they said that Earth is round and not flat? It's still same, science is science, religion is fiction. Science shifted us very far in very small time, religion kept everything on same for very long time. Look on LHC and look on Vatican. You must discover new thing without fear that someone will not like it. :)

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Because one is explainable and other is not.

Plus a lot of the functions of religion are now obsolete, as government took the role of controlling the population and doctors took the role of helping people. It's an archaic principle built on basic human fears and emotions, a better half of the society is strong and smart enough now to overcome and rationalize it.

the thing is this: religion is used to explain the things that we dont understand. when science came around, things we used to explain as the work of god for example turned out to be completely different things and most of the religious people dont like that the work of their god is being 'replaced' by something else.

Because they exclude themselves.

yeah, I'm one of them that thinks religion is a fiction that was made by those who wanted more power and control people. All ancient religions was made based on that, christianity is all about money.
so basically there's only science, and as Higgs boson is here - everything gets explainable.

however if I need to choose one religion in which I must be part of, I would choose paganism. I'm not telling that it's pure and the best of all religions, but at least less evil.

Religion was created to gain power and light of its holding in their hands. Science for knowledge of the fact that religion was created for easy management of people. If God is, it has no relation to the Bible to Karan and other things that a person!

Оригинал:
Религия было создана для обретения власти и легкого ее удержания в своих руках. Наука для познания того, что религия создана для легкого управления людьми. Если бог и есть, то он никакого отношения не имеет к библии, к карану и прочему созданным человеком!

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Why bring up a topic like this?Should just close it,gonna start flame wars sooner or later.

I don't find science and religion compatible, since science is based on truth and real world observations, whereas religion is largely based on blind faith.

I also have a dislike for organised religion, in that they harm others in denying demographics of the human race their human rights, and that angers me greatly. I have no issue with individual religious people of course.

You probably released a shitstorm.

As long as there is religion there will always be wars

One could also just declare himself as Atheist or Agnostic and never think about religion again until faced with it. I'm Agnostic tending to Atheist, and not an anti-religion extremist in any way.

“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,” explained the scientist about his view on death. “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

well said stephen

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