Is Science a Religion?

Yes many of you are probably thinking science is the ultimate antithesis of religion but if you break it all down science shows all the signs of a faith. Like religion science attempts to explain how we got here and how we continue to live (big bang and evolution), how to live (common medicinal practices i.e vitamin intake, diets etc) a baptism of sorts (vaccines and shots during infancy), predictions of future catastrophes similiar to armageddon but without the horesmen.....hehe.(which involve asteroids or other natural or man made destructive forces.) Priests, Sheiks, Rabbis = doctors and scientists. Ten commandments = laws of physics etc. Charismatic figures in religion such as Jesus Mohammed Buddha Nanak... in science Darwin Einstein Mendell. Rituals in religion= scientific method in the lab. Blame for the worlds problems have been placed on both science and religion as well as its saving. These similarities, though many may argue are rooted in different things (science in "fact" and religion in "fantasy") nevertheless are rooted in the same intentions or ideals of the followers of either one. and who is to say it isn't the other way around, that religion is the fact and science is the fantasy, though on paper science may win that war or perhaps not? other similarities... Many Sikh Gurus & Jesus were killed for what they believed and preached, so were many scientists through out the ages.
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All this may seem far fetched to most but consider all these similarities and think of your own ones.

 
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Does science have to be classified as a religion? I think that both religion and faith should work together as I believe that the purpose of life is to learn and grow. Both religion and science can help us do that. Both of them, if you look deep, ask us to look within ourselves. For religion, it is the soul. For science, the atoms and how they work.

Dear Neutral Singh ji and Eclectic

I think you are quite right and i always believed in a fact that science an dreligious effort are in same direction and both have same driving and motivational form and you already have given good examples of that It i sinteresting ti read what the greatest scientist ever belived :
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"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind

" The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

God is subtle but he is not malicious."

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
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Albert Einstein

I was really amazed when i found out that and it apeared to me that einstien was amonng the most religious people that existed at That time

, did you ever read the mathematics t-shirt, that says,

"And God said...."
and then it has like 5 mathematical formulas, and then it says,
"and Poof! there was light!"

I always thought that was funny
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Einstein was the man though.

Religion is something that attempts to describe life and the world around us. Science does this so science is a religion
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~CaramelChocolate~
The little philosopher

Or is religion science?

Ref; Is Science a Religion
A very interesting topic indeed.Before the matter is discussed it should be clarified tha tthere is SCIENCE behind everything happening in the UNIVERSE.and that is the science of NATURE itself.
That is why there is nothing INVENTED ;it is all DISCOVERED only the tools and apparatus are invented to expand the use of what is DISCOVERED from within NATURE.
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IN VIEW OF ABOVE FACTS THE SCIENCE CAN NOT BE REFFERED AS RELIGION'ON THE CONRARY THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANY RELIGION CAN BE BASED ON PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE.AND THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF ANY RELIGION PHILOSOPHY TO BE KNOWN THIS IS GENERALLY NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MOST OF LAYPERSONS BECAUSE THIS IS SCIENCE.

SO IT IS THE RESPOSIBILTY OF PEOPLE WITH KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE TO PUT FORWARD THE CORRECT IDIOLOGY OF ANY PHILOSOPHY.
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I AM HOPEFUL THAT WITH THE CONCEPT OF MODERN PHYSICS THE BASIC FUNDAMENTALS OF PHILOSOPHY OF ANY RELIGION CAN BE INTERPRATED MORE CLEARLY THAN EVER BEFORE.

With best wishes

Prakash,s.BaGGA

the question reduced; can you get a feeling of ought from an is?

SINISTER JI

I think you are right in your view.I appreciate that

With thanks
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Prakash.S.bagga