Quote: (03-29-2019 11:42 AM)TheFinalEpic Wrote:
So many people are going down the road of making science their new religion, and doing everything that doctors say to do, and are ending up in absolute wrecks.
The reason for this, and why science is insufficient as a religion, is that is has no answers for the fundamental questions religion seeks to answer: what happens after death, how did the universe come into existence, what is good and evil, how did life originate on Earth. For the last question, one proposed explanation believed by more than a few evolutionary biologists is that a lightning bolt hit a primordial soup of amino acids which then assembled themselves into proteins which formed the basis for simple living organisms. While it may be possible in theory, to me this seems as far-fetched as any story in religious texts.
Many scientists have very arrogant and hostile attitudes regarding religion and religious people, and while the scientific method can be used to explain a lot of what we experience, it falls short in addressing the most meaningful questions a sentient person faces. Which I think explains why many of these people are so miserable as you alluded to.