Is science a religion?

[Snail2]

Science is not a religion in any view of every person. Science believe everything it see, hear, touches, and feels while in religion(I am not an atheist) they believe in a God that they cannot see, hear, touch, and feel while they are alive in this planet.

Not exactly true. A lot of scientific "facts" are theories based on deduction first and then generalization, but as these theories are the best working explanations currently, so everybody accepting those as facts, however no one ever seen, heard, touched or felt those things. Some of these things are not even measurable or observable just derivations from some statistical data. And this is the pure science. If you take a look at economy, philosophy, psychology, sociology, politology and such science branches you are arrived to the realm of religion .

[Betwrong]

Yes, science is a religion in a way. It helps people who are afraid of living in an unknown and unpredictable enviroment to feel "safe" saying to them that it covers everything. That is not true of course, neither science nor religion answers all the questions. But people want simple answers that's why they go for one of them.

[dfaassen]

Hmmm i dont know!

[Kartikay]

Science is not atheistic and it is not religion as well.
A degree of concord between science and religion can be seen in religious belief and empirical science. The belief that God created the world and therefore humans, can lead to the view that he arranged for humans to know the world.

[n0ne]

Science can never be considered as a religion. Only atheist believe everything in accordance to science and they too don't say science as a religion. Its a form of art which has the proof.

[BADecker]

Science is not atheistic and it is not religion as well.
A degree of concord between science and religion can be seen in religious belief and empirical science. The belief that God created the world and therefore humans, can lead to the view that he arranged for humans to know the world.

While belief that God created the world might exist in some people who haven't looked at and understood the science that shows that God did it, other people who have examined the science know that God created the world.

Having knowledge eliminates belief. Before I knew it, I believed it. Now that I know it, belief is unnecessary, and maybe impossible.

[BADecker]

Science can never be considered as a religion. Only atheist believe everything in accordance to science and they too don't say science as a religion. Its a form of art which has the proof.

No proof in science theory... which, btw, is part of science.    

[criptix]

To all people before me:

How many of you people are scientist with a degree?

The good thing of science is nobody force you to believe anything.

If something is wrong you just need to show it is wrong. End of story.

[Daniel91]

Before asking this question you should give definition of religion?
If religion is faith in something without proofs, or very little proofs, than, in many cases, science act as religion.
How many concrete proofs science have about origin of Universe?
Nothing.
But they have their own theory based on their faith.
How many concrete proofs science have about origin of life on the Earth?
Nothing.
But they have their own theory based on their faith.
and this continue in many other cases....

[criptix]

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Misunderstanding/misconception of the meaning of scientific theory.

[BADecker]

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Misunderstanding/misconception of the meaning of scientific theory.

No misunderstanding at all. In simple terms, here is what good science theory is.

Science Fact 1 + Science Fact 2 + Science Fact 3 + etc., put together in a new way that is not factual. Science theory is not fact. That's why it is called theory, even though the parts of it may be 100% fact of themselves.

[TECSHARE]

To all people before me:

How many of you people are scientist with a degree?

The good thing of science is nobody force you to believe anything.

If something is wrong you just need to show it is wrong. End of story.

I am not a professional scientist, but I do have a degree. Do I get a cookie?

Science can never be considered as a religion. Only atheist believe everything in accordance to science and they too don't say science as a religion. Its a form of art which has the proof.

I can logically prove this statement is false. Atheists have a belief that there is no God. The problem with that logic is no one can prove it one way or another. As a result the ideology that there is no God is just another BELIEF no different than any other religion, making conclusions about things that can not be proven. I think if more Atheists were honest they would identify as Agnostic, which basically means "I don't know if there is a God so I am not making any conclusions".  

[BADecker]

Before asking this question you should give definition of religion?
...

Google says religion is:
"the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods."

I say a religion is an organized set of rules and doctrines that institutionalize irrational belief in supernatural being(s).

Science only can deal with rational, observable and measurable phenomena.  

Belief in supernatural God(s) is irrational.  God is an imaginary construct, it is not observable nor measurable.

So, does that make some scientists unscientific? When scientists claim that God doesn't exist, thereby opposing the clear science that shows that God DOES exist, where does that place science?

[Tusk]

Before asking this question you should give definition of religion?
...

Google says religion is:
"the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods."

I say a religion is an organized set of rules and doctrines that institutionalize irrational belief in supernatural being(s).

Science only can deal with rational, observable and measurable phenomena.  

Belief in supernatural God(s) is irrational.  God is an imaginary construct, it is not observable nor measurable.

The same can be said for maths, in itself it is an imaginary construct,  it is not observable nor measurable, It like religion is used  to measure things that are real. religion triers to measure behavior, good and evil while science tries to measure ratio or rationalize the physical.

[popcorn1]

Before asking this question you should give definition of religion?
...

Google says religion is:
"the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods."

I say a religion is an organized set of rules and doctrines that institutionalize irrational belief in supernatural being(s).

Science only can deal with rational, observable and measurable phenomena.  

Belief in supernatural God(s) is irrational.  God is an imaginary construct, it is not observable nor measurable.

So, does that make some scientists unscientific? When scientists claim that God doesn't exist, thereby opposing the clear science that shows that God DOES exist, where does that place science?

For thousands of years science as tried to prove a god..BUT no joy..
Even trying to insult this god.No bolt of lightning as struck me yet and no show from this god..

There must be some religious nut who is into science who is still trying to prove there is a god.
Waste of time..Also if your god's are so powerful where is all this power..
No one beats SUPERMAN but i do believe BATMAN is going to have ago..

[popcorn1]

To all people before me:

How many of you people are scientist with a degree?

The good thing of science is nobody force you to believe anything.

If something is wrong you just need to show it is wrong. End of story.

I am not a professional scientist, but I do have a degree. Do I get a cookie?

Science can never be considered as a religion. Only atheist believe everything in accordance to science and they too don't say science as a religion. Its a form of art which has the proof.

I can logically prove this statement is false. Atheists have a belief that there is no God. The problem with that logic is no one can prove it one way or another. As a result the ideology that there is no God is just another BELIEF no different than any other religion, making conclusions about things that can not be proven. I think if more Atheists were honest they would identify as Agnostic, which basically means "I don't know if there is a God so I am not making any conclusions".  

I own a 4 headed dragon..Trouble is no one can prove I don't own one..
Now if you don't believe me you will burn for ever

[Moloch]

I own a 4 headed dragon..Trouble is no one can prove I don't own one..
Now if you don't believe me you will burn for ever

Just goes to show how little atheists know!

According to the bible, Satan is a 7-headed dragon not 4-headed!  HA!  GOTCHA!

(this post is satire)

[criptix]

To all people before me:

How many of you people are scientist with a degree?

The good thing of science is nobody force you to believe anything.

If something is wrong you just need to show it is wrong. End of story.

I am not a professional scientist, but I do have a degree. Do I get a cookie?

No you can buy a coolie yourself if you want one.

We are in the process of changing into a knowledge society - everyone of you have the responsibility and freedom of researching the truth or rather educate yourself to be able to see that science is backed up by facts. It isnt just a opinion or believe of a person x about something y.


Btw. I asked that question because a lot of people replying here dont understand the scientific process of creating a theory or explaning a natural law.

[BADecker]

Before asking this question you should give definition of religion?
...

Google says religion is:
"the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods."

I say a religion is an organized set of rules and doctrines that institutionalize irrational belief in supernatural being(s).

Science only can deal with rational, observable and measurable phenomena.  

Belief in supernatural God(s) is irrational.  God is an imaginary construct, it is not observable nor measurable.

So, does that make some scientists unscientific? When scientists claim that God doesn't exist, thereby opposing the clear science that shows that God DOES exist, where does that place science?

For thousands of years science as tried to prove a god..BUT no joy..

Science has been around for thousands of years, and you were there all that time watching them attempt to prove the existence of God? All they had to do was combine cause and effect, complex universe, and universal entopy to prove the existence of God. Whether or not people have proven that God exists, they sure seem to believe in Him.

Even trying to insult this god.No bolt of lightning as struck me yet and no show from this god..

Why would it bother God how many ways you insult Him? You will die. If you bothered Him at all, He will laugh, then. Right now He is tryingt to convince you to be saved.

There must be some religious nut who is into science who is still trying to prove there is a god.
Waste of time..Also if your god's are so powerful where is all this power..
No one beats SUPERMAN but i do believe BATMAN is going to have ago..

There seem to be a lot of religious nuts around who still believe in the atheism religion, in the face of science and nature proving that God exists.

[sallymeeh27]

I may not be sure if science is religion but I think our religion is based under the bible which is not part of science. Most of the time science always do not believe on what religion always say like there is God and there is salvation, heaven and hell..