Recent content by Harvir007

I have already clarified that my original point was that science is not a religion. You asked me a question in what I think religion is, then you ask 'so what?' I don't understand what you're trying to do. I don't think this story is in the Guru Granth Sahib but it is well known amongst Sikhs...

If we're going by my understanding of religion, I'd say that religion is the postulation of their being something immaterial and beyond the material world. In other words, if the idea of a 'god' or supernatural entity or cosmic law maker is postulated within an ideology, then it would be correct...

I can't claim it's scientific? Oh come on. Evolution, fact. Earth is around 4.54 billion years old, fact. Age of the universe is around 13.77 billion years, fact. CMB radiation measurements do a good job of pinning down just how long it has been since the big bang with general consensus being...

Yeah, I am familiar with Reinhart-Rogoff saga. Being an economics student myself, there have been many things that led me to not take their data seriously. Thus, I was vindicated when Thomas Herndon, who you have mentioned, rebuked their claims. It was an excel error, was it not? We had the UK...

I haven't read him, but he's the bloke that was an atheist turned deist am I correct? I mean I have no quarrel with the deist position so much, it's still a belief based on no evidence but not as harmful as a theistic god (an intervening god). If there is a god, they've created a very terrible...

Because they think the idea that a cosmic intelligence started the big bang 13.77 billion years ago, then waited 9 or so billion years to create the earth, then waited till about 200-400 thousand years ago for homo sapiens to evolve from earlier hominids and then waited till the past 2000 years...

The fact that you're saying 'could be' means that it is open to interpretation. So say if Dawkins is correct that those Muslim pupils asserted that they don't mix, it's still wrong, regardless of whether or not they think the quotation says that. If a Muslim reads that and, according to their...

I didn't say that. Individuals may be the ones that discover these facts and I may have nothing to do with their discovery, that doesn't make me a follower. It simply makes me a rational being that accepts evidence that comes out of science. There is no 'following' involved. But if you perceive...

Could you please explain to me how one can tell if one is devoted to science and how that devotion makes it a religion? For you, religion may be a manifestation of devotion, I personally do not because that's changing the definition of religion to back up a point that is a play with words...

Science is facing the facts about the reality of the world. There is no following, only accepting the facts.

Reincarnation is a claim about biology. One that claims your 'spirit' or 'soul' travels outside of one's body when you die, and it then travels into another body. Is that correct? If a religion, or somebody claims that this process occurs, then that is a scientific claim. It might not be...

Could you elaborate more on what you mean by science and principles of religion coming from the same source? Is it not true that religion comes from revelation and 'the truth' being revealed to an individual (dependent on the religion)? Science isn't revealed wisdom. You hypothesise, you...

Reincarnation is a failed science because it isn't testable. Science can't have a word on it due to that fact. But for a religion to assert that there is an after-life, that's a claim about the real world which has to either be right or wrong. Yeah, I read about NOMA in the God Delusion. I...

But that's like saying alchemy is chemistry or that astrology is astronomy. Because at their root they are similar. The difference between science and religion is that science's explanations are convincing and religions', for the most part, aren't. The postulation by some Christians that the...

Right, but you'd agree that the definition of religion is totally different from the definition of science? Hmm, would it at all be possible if you could cite some examples of those theories? And also explain what sort of factors, in your mind, have contributed to science becoming more of an...