Science is growing and its growing fast. Just think about the growth of science for the last 60 to 80 years. Most of the things now we are using daily is not imaginable before 70 years ago. So think about the world after 80 or hundred years.

There may be many impossible things (now on real world) exists on the world. Most of them not get afraid of any thing because of their power (with the help of science).

The problem with this is that science and beliefs are running in parallel lines. Neither of them matches with each other on their concepts and policy, But most of us believed on a super power or our creator. The main reason for that is because science still need to answer many questions. But most of the spiritual religion gives you a complete picture of your life and the need for living.

Religion and beliefs are the main controlling body which governs the human behavior. Without that, humans are just becomes fearless creatures like other animal, without thinking any consequences. With the rapid growth of science, It is impossible for our traditional beliefs to match with science if it grows like this. So we need to do some thing to protect our future generations and our world by preserving our Beliefs.

Science only meant to destroy life, But our beliefs keep us alive for a long time. Think.. think...

This post has been edited by ivenms: May 4 2008, 06:31 AM

I disagree, Science is meant to help life, the truth is that they're is less religion now than ever before, its faith vs logic, but i cant put faith in something that isnt logical if that make sense, logic before faith. I think its which is stronger in you. I love science, faith may mean you live longer but so does science but science means everyone lives longer. Look at religion under 50% of the nation of the UK proclaim belief in God, the only reason the univeral religion isnt athiesm is because people just stick "church of england" on the census, the truth is (I believe) that God is a way of getting out of death, but why fear death... if death is the end then theres no need to fear it because its not like your gonna realise it at the end of the day!

Faith is found in science, and science has been known to increase faith. There's nothing contradictory about the two, especially if the objectives and interpretations are the same. You can't say religion is false just because someone said something while science said something (that appears to be) contradictory to it. Faith will continue on, whether it's in the belief or disbelief of something, and so will the study of things; that is, until the last day, of course.

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As i thought, you weren't looking at it as a whole. Religion hasn't decreased, especially since you include atheism as being a religion. By your own words, you contradicted yourself. Religion keeps growing. I think this is a case of faith before logic on your side.

By the way, religion and logic go hand in hand. People not making it look that way doesn't mean it doesn't. After all, philosophy is the field of religion.


I wouldn't necessarily say that people fear dying as much as they fear how they're going to die. The unknown can be pretty fearful. But one who has many unfinished business would not want to die for the sake of finishing what they would be leaving behind.

There are no gods. Religion was 'the science' of thousands of years ago. Civilized men adopted rules for their tribes to live by. These rules became the basis of their religions. If no man ever imagined a god, we would still have religions i.e. rules. Creating god to scare people into obedience never worked out too well, but religion also sought to explain the world and, as such, was the science of the day. It was only when Julius Caesar hijacked Christianity and misinterpreted Judaic teachings that men became misled and saw scientific reasoning as a danger to their (Roman) power. The church proclaimed the world to be flat. The Bible doesn't say this. The church declared Earth to be the center of the Universe. The Bible doesn't say that either. The Church of Caesar (Catholic and its spinoffs) made many mistakes for which organized religion continues to suffer. In reality, Judeochristianity is vague on scientific matters. This is a good thing. Some religions stated wild ideas like the earth is held up on the backs of turtles!