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I must say before i start this that i do not have a problem with religion as you could take me as being racist in this post.

I think religion is away of people feeling better about them selfs that there is a supreme being watching over them keeping them save and they can be forgiven. I think science is a way to try and prove things wrong, and prove yourself to be the best, and fully understand what is happening. To clear up the uncertain, unproven spots that religion has.

Ultimately religion can never be proved wrong but science can be by god just appearing...

This being a science forum you better have peer reviewed journals to back these statistics up. Otherwise it is just atheistic propaganda.

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For other uses, see religion (disambiguation).

A religion is a set of beliefs and practices generally held by a community, involving adherence to codified beliefs and rituals and study of ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.

All patriarchal religions present a common quality, the "hallmark of patriarchal religious thought": the division of the world in two comprehensive domains, one sacred, the other profane. [1] Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, tradition, rituals, and scriptures are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion is also often described as a "way of life".

The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. "Organized religion" generally refers to an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion with a prescribed set of beliefs, often taking the form of a legal entity (see religion-supporting organization). Other religions believe in personal revelation and responsibility. "Religion" is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system,"[2] but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions.

I'm not an atheic propagander, i've nothing to ad or to vehiculate, you have your own opinion.

But well religion is different from science on at least one point. Science is discovering something. There is risks, and we all know science is not perfect.

BUT religion claim that their goal is to give us peace, or there's many many religion wars, religion wounded, religion suffering, and religion deaths. So huh, where's promising peace? nowhere with religion.

Science bring knowledge, which bring understanding, which bring respect, which don't bring any fear when there is a bizarre event, mystified by the religion but explained with science.

I will prove that "God" not exist when you will prove "God" exist. In all cases, it will bring nothing to humanity to believe on something which is just not there, it's a loss of time, it's a loss of energy, and after all, it's a big mess up of lying. We need to move, to discover, to understand our world. Not to say "ok, it's God that made all that, good". If god made aids, should we accept it and let millions of people die? If god made the global warming, the tsunami, should we accept it and low our arms down? NO! We are not spectators in this world. We can ACT on it, goodly or badly, but we are not puppets that a strange spirit manipulate at his will. We have choice into our live, choice to understand, go discover behind all mystery, or just sit and wait some undone miracles which when happen can always have an logic and scientific explanation and have nothing to see with some god...


Edit: It will certainly be my last intervention on this topic, because of the non easy argumentation on it (some are for science, some rare for religion, and some just don't care), and because of my precious time

Well, i forgot to mention that religious beliefs are the cause and/or justification of those incidents. And of course, I know that. I'd never take the Bible seriously. Why would i? There are so many things in it that make no sense whatsoever, like God sent his ONLY son down to earth just to die for people that were going to sin anyways, He created a tree that He knew Adam and Eve were going to eat from even though they were going to die if they did, and so on. If he was all-knowing then he'd already known that Adam and Eve were going to eat from a tree that he said would kill them,yet they didn't die. And how would they have known that this was wrong? They were naive, like a child. They didn't know right from wrong. And if He knew this, then why did he get angry at them? It sounds to me like he was just setting a trap for humanity.And sending his only son down to people he condemn for eternity just so his son could be put through torment to die for their sins, yet they were still going to sin? That's just stupid. I'm just summarizing my long rant into one short sentence: It's stupid and has no logic.

Not calling her names, I am labeling the type of propaganda. Unsupported facts have no place in a scientific forum... That would make them not science, but a matter of belief (sounds almost like religion then!)