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Originally Posted by DanishDynamite
Could you explain in what sense some people grasp onto science as a religion? In what sense it a religion for them?
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By using it as the explanation to everything, same as many of the fanatically religious do. Science can explain what has happened in the past, and help to predict what might occur in the future. It can not tell us what could have been or what will be.
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Originally Posted by DanishDynamite
Science is never proven. It can't be as we are talking here about how the Universe works. But this doesn't mean that new theories "come along and prove something else". This has never happened in the history of science. What happens is that every now and then new observations are made which are not explained by the previous best model for how things work and scientists then start working at how this new observation can best be explained. No new model ever explains less than the previous model. Each model explains more. For example, Newton's Laws explained so very much of how things moved and why an apple falling was so much the same as why the Moon showed phases. What Eisntein did was not to show that Newton was wrong as such, but just that his Relativity Theory explained more when the things moving got close to the speed of light. Einstein's theory expanded Newton's Laws.
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You are absolutely right that science is never proven. And science continually disproves earlier findings. Science was used to prove both the earth was flat and then that it was round; that the earth was the center of the universe and then that it was a satellite. How many supported theories of the dinosaurs and the creation of the universe have there been?
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Originally Posted by DanishDynamite
How can they possibly need something bigger to hold on to than the amazing knowledge we already have about the incredible world we live in? Black holes, galaxies, pulsars, quarks, quantum tunneling, neutron stars, colliding galaxies, etc, etc, etc. So much incredible fascination about our Universe, and yet so much to learn. It boggles the mind!
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Because we are human. We are individuals, and we find our own truths. Just because you can find absolute truth in science doesnt mean that everyone has to. There is so much out there that science doesn't prove, that the world's brightest minds have no idea about; religion is a logical choice to light the darkness, so to speak.