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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
whether it is just a semantic argument or not, it's wrong. religion is based on faith (blind belief). science is based on observation. i believe in science (and have faith in science that is beyond my current knowledge) because i can drop an apple and see it fall (repeatidly, accelerating at the same rate each time), because i can turn on my computer and type this response to you, because i can listen to the radio and hear a news story about something happening on the other side of the world that they heard about through a telephone call or on tv. other than bore me on a saturday morning, god hasn't done anything that i can observe (and i wouldn't hold god responsible for the boredom, damn rabbi). so there's a big difference between the two.
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Religion was originally an explanation for observed phenomena. Science is also an explanation for observed phenomena. One still has to believe in science and have faith in the method, regardless of how widely accepted it is. Science is not what makes the universe work; it is only a conceptual framework through which we attempt to understand it. In essence, it serves the purpose that religion once fully served.
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