Re: In the year 2507 - there will be no religions
Yes science is study of new evidence and old evidence. You are correct to say that as was I. What you fail to comprehend is that religion is no subsitute for science and vice versa. Religion (at least Islam) is about belief in God, morality and a framework of principles from which legal laws and human behavior can be derived and very few even verbatim.
i believe what you are trying to say here is that science and religion have separate territories..what is called non-overlapping magisterata. that is not true however. people often believe that religion concerns itself with morality, spirituality etc. yet when we think of it religion, and for that matter God, intrudes into a lot of scientific matters. for example,we know that we will burn our hand if we put it in fire. religion tells us that for some people it could go cold. science and common observation tells us that we will drown if there is enough water. yet religion tells us that there were people in the past who were able to walk on water. in short, every time a miracle is performed it gets into the realm of science and thus we can not say that religion and science belong in two separate territories.
so far as morality is concerned it has nothing to do with religion. you will see many people who are atheists who are morally upright, and many believers who aint so. morality has nothing to do with religion or god. it has to do with the person's grooming and innner self. in fact they both are independent of each other.
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Belief in God is innate and it exists in many forms. Irrespective of what superficial form people may have of God deep down it boils down to the same truth for the religious and scientists alike, someone created everything you see and set the laws that govern it naturally. Science is the study of how things works and once that is understood how we can manipulate it, put simply. Science becomes religion when it tries to understand who is God, how does he work and what we can do to manipulate God (earn his wrath or pleasure).
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i dont think scientists believe in that proposition that someone created this world. they believe that believers have taken this thing to be a default..that if we do not have the reason to why something would have happened, then it must have been done by God. there is a reason why people do that. people love short cuts. why bother looking for an answer when we can have a short cut answer i.e. God.
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You are not clear on the difference between belief and rulings/laws of religion. The reason belief exists is because science is inadequate to prove it. As we progress technologically, we have seen things in Islam that the muslims 1400 years ago assimilated into their belief has been proven correct and some still remain to be proven. Issues such as polygamy, hudood, interest, blood-money, eye for an eye, etc are behavioral aspects and laws not beliefs. People often when arguing about Islamic belief bring all this into the discussion. The point is how truth has been discovered to reinforce your belief in God.
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so what you are essentially saying is that once Science is able to prove those things that are not clear today, then beliefe will go away. the more science advances, the less space belief will have in this world.
i think it needs another thread but could you please give me what is the difference between the two( belief and behavioral aspects). there is a strange thing with believers though. when something gets proven by science( for example, the cleanliness aspect of islam) they present it as proof that their belief is right. when the reverse happens they try to separate belief from that. and that is what you have done here.